[gentoo-user] emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

When I did my usual update today firefox 52.4.0 failed to build. There are thousands of compiler warnings in the build log, but the only thing I can find that looks like an error is this: /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eth over usb

I'm blessed with city operated fiber to premise gigabit ethernet, when they do an install they check with a laptop with a gigabit usb3 adapter.  it actually got about 960Mb/s. -- "Informed delivery" is just an excuse for the post office to compile data basses for sale to marketing firms and

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/texinfo-6.5: Aborted /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl ../tp/texi2any

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 03:43:50 -0400 Andrey Moshbear wrote: > Hi; > > texi2any fails with SIGABRT when compiling texinfo: > > emerge -1v =sys-apps/texinfo-6.5: http://dpaste.com/0XJMVRV > emerge --info: http://dpaste.com/1DDRESJ > > What's the failure cause and appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 19:11:42 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > mdbox? Is this a single file per mail folder? > > > > It's multiple mails per file and multiple files per mailbox. > > > > > The main reason I switched to maildir several decades ago was > > > precisely the issues (by design)

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 07:06:24 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> btrfs isn't horrible, but it basically hasn't been optimized at all. >> The developers are mainly focused on getting it to not destroy your >> data, with mixed

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Saturday, October 7, 2017 6:13:57 PM CEST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:59:39 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Although, I will also be switching to dovecot's mdbox format when I > > > set up my next server, so the issue of lots of small files won't be > > > nearly as big. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of classic skype

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:32:21 BST Raymond Jennings wrote: > Due to the removal of qt4, all of its reverse dependencies are also going > to be removed. > > This decision has already been made by the qt project and is not up for > discussion. > > Furthermore, qt4 has a large number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while starting Docker daemon

On Saturday, 7 October 2017 17:23:33 BST Hubert Hauser wrote: > I am using Gentoo as Host OS for Docker containers. > I have compiled > kernel using instructions on page > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Docker#Kernel and I have installed Docker > from Gentoo repository. > > Host system

[gentoo-user] Removal of classic skype

Due to the removal of qt4, all of its reverse dependencies are also going to be removed. This decision has already been made by the qt project and is not up for discussion. Furthermore, qt4 has a large number of security bugs and it has also been brought to my attention that it even fails to

[gentoo-user] Error while starting Docker daemon

I am using Gentoo as Host OS for Docker containers. I have compiled kernel using instructions on page https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Docker#Kernel and I have installed Docker from Gentoo repository. Host system informations:     pecan@tux ~ $ uname -a     Linux tux 4.12.12-gentoo #8 SMP Sat Oct 7

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Sat, 07 Oct 2017 14:59:39 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Although, I will also be switching to dovecot's mdbox format when I > > set up my next server, so the issue of lots of small files won't be > > nearly as big. > > mdbox? Is this a single file per mail folder? It's multiple mails per

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 07:06:24 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > btrfs isn't horrible, but it basically hasn't been optimized at all. > The developers are mainly focused on getting it to not destroy your > data, with mixed success. An obvious example of this is that if you > read a file from a pair of

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:28:08 AM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I had a large partition with reiserfs. > > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. > > > > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Saturday, October 7, 2017 11:18:33 AM CEST Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/6/2017, 8:53:27 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 171005 christos kotsis wrote: > >> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance > >> over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. > > > > I've long

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 6:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 05:18:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Anyone have any experience with comparing performance with either btrfs >> or ZFS against either ReiserFS or XFS for a maildir based mail server? > > I tried btrfs

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 05:18:33 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Anyone have any experience with comparing performance with either btrfs > or ZFS against either ReiserFS or XFS for a maildir based mail server? I tried btrfs on a mail server and it was unbearably slow. Disabling copy-on-write made a big

[gentoo-user] Why I'm unable to run Vagrant as non-root user?

I've installed Vagrant in Gentoo from repository. I'm using Ruby 2.2.8. I've got following error when I was tried run Vagrant as non-root user:     pecan@tux ~ $ vagrant     /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/2.2.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- checkpoint

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki-viewer anyone?

On 10/07 08:19, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 00:41:26 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > I dont want to convert the md-files to html, since I want to update > > the repo later (see above). > > The problem are files referencing other files. Reading the md-files > > via vim (for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On 10/6/2017, 2:12:00 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I had a large partition with reiserfs. > Running fsck always failed due to running out of memory. > > Partition was quite a bit larger than 2TB (around 6TB) and contained > a huge (millions) amount of files, > but having an

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

On 10/6/2017, 8:53:27 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > 171005 christos kotsis wrote: >> I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance >> over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. > I've long relied on ReiserFS for everything except /boot > & have never had any

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

On 10/7/2017, 12:09:07 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On 6 Oct 2017, at 15:31, Tanstaafl wrote: >> Second, do you have rc_sys defined, or are you using auto-detect (is it just commented out)? >>> >>> Just commented out. >> >> This

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiki-viewer anyone?

On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 00:41:26 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I dont want to convert the md-files to html, since I want to update > the repo later (see above). > The problem are files referencing other files. Reading the md-files > via vim (for example) would imply to grab all references by hand. >

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ emerge fails

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 9:28 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:30:06PM +, Perry S Glenn wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> gtk+ 2 and 3 both fail to emerge >> glib-compile-resources gtk.gresource.xml \ >> --target=gtkresources.c >>