[gentoo-user] nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1

2018-06-09 Thread Philip Webb
I updated to the latest stable Nvidia-drivers-396.24-r1 , rebooted & 'startx' : the result was an X error "No devices detected ... no screens found". Downgrading to 390.48 got X working again. Nothing to see on the Forum or among Gentoo 'nvidia' bugs. My kernel is 4.9.16-gentoo. Has anyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-09 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Okay, with all that advice, I gave it another try. I'm also setting up a VirtualBox for my WFH stuff and VB wants to use 10.0.0.0 for its networking. I've changed this to 172.16.0.0 so now I can easily tell that network from work network (which seems to use 10.25.0.0) I wanted to add a route to

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 4:31 PM Wol's lists wrote: > > On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I feel like this is something that Windows natively gets "better" than > > POSIX. They have a concept of UIDs being specific to a machine or > > authentication server (or domain as they call it), and

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On June 9, 2018 1:20:14 PM UTC, Tom H wrote: >On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM Ian Zimmerman >wrote: >> >> Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on >NFS >> clients and servers? > >You have to use NIS, NIS+Kerberos, or LDAP+Kerberos. > >I've never tried it but

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Wol's lists
On 09/06/18 18:09, Rich Freeman wrote: I feel like this is something that Windows natively gets "better" than POSIX. They have a concept of UIDs being specific to a machine or authentication server (or domain as they call it), and this concept is enforced at the host level. That said, I'm sure

Re: [gentoo-user] spec_store_bypass mitigation

2018-06-09 Thread Mick
On Thursday, 7 June 2018 08:37:41 BST zless wrote: > Hello, > > I just finished installing kernel 4.14.48 on two > Intel laptops and I have different results for > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spec_store_bypass > > On one of them it looks nice: > "Mitigation: Speculative Store

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 12:34 PM Grant Taylor wrote: > > NFS will quite happily work with dissimilar IDs if you're using "other" > permission to access everything. }:-) > There are a few network filesystems with this property. As long as you just mount the whole filesystem with one user/group

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 06/08/2018 10:42 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS clients and servers? I can argue that the IDs don't have to be synchronized to use NFS. You just end up with unexpected complications from different IDs on different systems.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:26 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > On 2018-06-09 14:15, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > I had a look at the source code for kmod-25. If I read it right, dmesg > > should have records along the lines of: > > kmod-25/libkmod/libkmod-module.c:886: INFO(mod->ctx, "Failed

[gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-09 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-06-09 14:15, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > I had a look at the source code for kmod-25. If I read it right, dmesg > should have records along the lines of: > kmod-25/libkmod/libkmod-module.c:886: INFO(mod->ctx, "Failed > to insert module '%s': %m\n", path); > > modprobe returns

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 6:43 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? You have to use NIS, NIS+Kerberos, or LDAP+Kerberos. I've never tried it but "/etc/idmapd.conf" has a "[Static]" section in which you can set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:20:18 BST Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:34 PM Mick wrote: > > On Friday, 8 June 2018 23:21:52 BST Grant Taylor wrote: > > > On 06/08/2018 03:31 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > > > Sigh, I take it back. That causes the internal sites to no longer > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest 4.9 kernels broken?

2018-06-09 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 8:56 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018, 07:34 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> >> On 2018-06-08 22:38, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018, 22:30 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> > >> > > On 2018-06-08 22:00, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> > > >> > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Conkyrc and the troubles I have with it...

2018-06-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On 9 June 2018 at 06:28, wrote: > Where can I find a sufficient explanation and a description of the new > syntax ... I dont know lua enough to have a successful gues work > here... Most of it is converting the variables to the new format, which is explained on the github page. man conky also

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, June 9, 2018 6:42:56 AM CEST Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? Not to my knowledge. I use OpenLDAP for my users and groups and this has worked perfectly ever since I implemented it. > Or, is there

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread dsonck
On 2018-06-09 09:41, Andrew Udvare wrote: On 2018-06-09, at 00:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS clients and servers? I checked and there is no way. It is recommended UID/GID be synced regularly on all client machines. NFSv4

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2018-06-09, at 00:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? I checked and there is no way. It is recommended UID/GID be synced regularly on all client machines. NFSv4 requires user names and group names be

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS and user IDs

2018-06-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/06/18 05:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is there _any_ way around the need to keep the user IDs matched on NFS > clients and servers? > > Or, is there any other remote filesystem (other than the one originally > made by Microsoft) that avoids that chore? Which filesystem do you mean? Do you