Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 27 April 2018 18:43:27 BST Mick wrote: > I haven't used genkernel to be able to advise, but this page explains what > you need to do: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel_microcode > > However, you may find it makes no difference. Intel have announced they > will not be bringing

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo VM with VNC

2018-04-27 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-04-27 18:39, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Ah yes, X11 seems to be a new battle field for me in gentoo. While > ~/.xsession was the way to have a custom startup in other distributions, > it is ignored in gentoo, used via startx or wdm. I found something about > ~/.xprofile but that is also not

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/04/18 21:51, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: 4.15 is not a supported kernel. Either you need to stay on the bleeding edge, meaning 4.16, or use a supported kernel, like 4.14. See:   https://www.kernel.org Basically, you need to always use the "mainline" kernel, or a "longterm" kernel. Other

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/04/18 20:20, Klaus Ethgen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Fr den 27. Apr 2018 um 6:42 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 26/04/18 14:42, Mick wrote: Hmm ... why is my Intel system missing 'IBPB' & 'IBRS_FW' ? $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Fr den 27. Apr 2018 um 18:43 schrieb Mick: > On Friday, 27 April 2018 18:21:51 BST Klaus Ethgen wrote: [microcode] > I haven't used genkernel to be able to advise, but this page explains what > you > need to do: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Mick
On Friday, 27 April 2018 18:21:51 BST Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi, > > Am Mi den 25. Apr 2018 um 18:56 schrieb Mick: > > I recall there was a perl update recently. For good measure run: > > > > perl-cleaner --reallyall > > > > and then try running your remaining updates. > > That did the trick;

[gentoo-user] Gentoo VM with VNC

2018-04-27 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, another problem I encounter when I use Gentoo. ;-) I have a VM (KVM) where I start X11 with qxl driver to use it via vnc. I had the same setup before with Debian. While with debian, VNC was fine, with gentoo the mouse get detected wrong. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange compile errors

2018-04-27 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Mi den 25. Apr 2018 um 18:56 schrieb Mick: > I recall there was a perl update recently. For good measure run: > > perl-cleaner --reallyall > > and then try running your remaining updates. That did the trick; even for the kernel. However,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-27 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, Am Fr den 27. Apr 2018 um 6:42 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 26/04/18 14:42, Mick wrote: > > Hmm ... why is my Intel system missing 'IBPB' & 'IBRS_FW' ? > > > > $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

2018-04-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 4:12 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > So, again, I went off half-cocked (sorry about the noise). The problem is that > the NFS mount in the chroot picks different ports each time, so the client's > firewall drops all NFS packets. > > Now I just have to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 4.9.95

2018-04-27 Thread Mick
On Friday, 27 April 2018 06:42:56 BST Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 26/04/18 14:42, Mick wrote: > > Hmm ... why is my Intel system missing 'IBPB' & 'IBRS_FW' ? > > > > $ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI > >