[gentoo-user] MS-Teams on XFCE4/Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi all,     I ve just installed MS-Teams from portage and do not have webcam video (it sees the USB code, but gives a black screen).  I also tried the linux download from MS and it behaves the same.  The camera works fine in teams on chromium, Firefox, zoom etc. under the same user. Has anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread William Kenworthy
On 18/6/20 3:55 am, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 17 June 2020 21:32:19 CEST, Michael wrote: >> On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:31:42 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> On 17 June 2020 19:01:54 CEST, Michael > > This brings another problem I have with KVM/QEMU: all howtos and documents I > find show long

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:55:19 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 17 June 2020 21:32:19 CEST, Michael wrote: > This brings another problem I have with KVM/QEMU: all howtos and documents I > find show long commandline options to just start the VM. I have not found > one where I can provide all the

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 June 2020 21:32:19 CEST, Michael wrote: >On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:31:42 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 17 June 2020 19:01:54 CEST, Michael >wrote: > >> >https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Snapshots2 >> >> Can you point to where in the commands above the memory anf cpu state >is >>

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for >some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? I see that >currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. You might try

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:36:51 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 17 June 2020 18:52:49 CEST, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for > >some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? > >I see that currently

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 18:31:42 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 17 June 2020 19:01:54 CEST, Michael wrote: > >https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/Snapshots2 > > Can you point to where in the commands above the memory anf cpu state is > actually stored and loaded back when reverting to the snapshot?

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 June 2020 18:52:49 CEST, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >Hello, > >I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for >some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? >I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. > >Thanks, > >raffaele Not

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 June 2020 19:01:54 CEST, Michael wrote: >On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:32:10 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:42:30 AM CEST n952162 wrote: >> > On 06/17/20 06:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > > On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:08:23 PM CEST n952162 wrote: >> > >> On 06/16/20

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread Michael
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:32:10 BST J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:42:30 AM CEST n952162 wrote: > > On 06/17/20 06:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:08:23 PM CEST n952162 wrote: > > >> On 06/16/20 22:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > > I have not

[gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-17 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Hello, I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for some very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? I see that currently gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. Thanks, raffaele

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 16 Jun 2020, Dale wrote: [..] >For the /dev/one, I found some which seems to work.  They listed further >down.  I think my google search terms was poor.  Google doesn't have ESP >for sure.  O_o [..] >dd if=<(yes $'\xFF' | tr -d "\n") of= This is correct but _much_ slower than my

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:32 AM Wols Lists wrote: > > On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote: > > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without > > telling anyone at first. It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well. > > Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as >

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread Wols Lists
On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote: > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without > telling anyone at first. It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well. Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as "optimised for raid/nas".THAT is what's so bad about the WD case -

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 7:38 PM antlists wrote: > > On 16/06/2020 13:25, Rich Freeman wrote: > > And of course the problem with these latest hidden SMR drives is that > > they generally don't support TRIM, > > This, I believe, is a problem with the ATA spec. I don't understand > what's going on,

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 11:03:00 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > > Thanks for the heads up. To play safe, I emerge passwdqc before > > > emerging @world. It actually emerge without complaint on the three > > > systems I tried. I also made sure I could SSH in after updating PAM > > > before terminating

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Andreas Fink
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 09:51:13 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 09:29:39 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > > I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to > > > sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. > > > The update adds passwdqc

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday, 17 June 2020 09:29:39 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > > I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to > > sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. > > The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in > > sys-auth/passwdqc.

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to > sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. > The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in > sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my > system, and leaves me with

[gentoo-user] Warning: Do not update PAM on ~amd64

2020-06-17 Thread Andreas Fink
Hello, I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my system, and leaves me with an installed sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 which is broken and does

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u fails with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory" [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:54:22 AM CEST n952162 wrote: > On 06/16/20 21:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 16 June 2020 20:31:56 CEST, n952162 wrote: > >> Admonished to get everything updated, I turned to my raspberry pi with > >> Sakaki's binary image. Synced and updated portage with no

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox in headless configuration broken after update: delayed echo [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:42:30 AM CEST n952162 wrote: > On 06/17/20 06:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:08:23 PM CEST n952162 wrote: > >> On 06/16/20 22:36, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I have not come across MS HyperV outside of small businesses that need > > some > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

2020-06-17 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally bought a 8TB drive.  It is used but they claim only a short > duration.  Still, I want to test it to be sure it is in grade A shape > before putting a lot of data on it and depending on it.  I am familiar > with some tools already.  I know about SMART but it is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u fails with "OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory" [ RESOLVED, kinda ]

2020-06-17 Thread n952162
On 06/16/20 21:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 16 June 2020 20:31:56 CEST, n952162 wrote: Admonished to get everything updated, I turned to my raspberry pi with Sakaki's binary image.  Synced and updated portage with no problem. Then I did an emerge -u @world and got (after *hours* of dependency