[gentoo-user] FYI new sys-firmware/intel-microcode

On ~amd64 sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 just came through. The checksum on every file in /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/ has changed with this update. My skylake system went from; microcode: sig=0x406e3, pf=0x80, revision=0xba to microcode: sig=0x406e3, pf=0x80, revision=0xc2

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

> They're new in general - they first appeared last week and they're > being treated as if they're related to Spectre. I've yet to see any > kind of official release of them, but that seems to be par for the > course for AMD the more I hunt around for documentation. It seems > like Suse first

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode updates for "old" Intel CPU's

> > If somebody actually sees anything official from AMD clearly giving a > checklist for Spectre remediation I'm all ears. To its credit, Intel > at least published one of those (even if it amounts to "pound sand" > for older CPUs). > AMD have revised their guidance on Variant 2 from "near zero

[gentoo-user] gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

Comparing the contents of /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 With gcc 7.2 + kernel 4.14.15; Intel system shows; Vulnerable: Minimal generic ASM retpoline AMD system shows: Vulnerable: Minimal AMD ASM retpoline With gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15.0; Intel system shows; Mitigation: Full

Re: [gentoo-user] rust 1.23.0 fails to install

> > > Maybe a resync for dev-lang/rust-1.23.0-r1::gentoo helps. But > > before you emerge, be aware of bug #646092 [1] (where I also ran > > into). For me [2] solves the described issue. > > > > > > References: > > - [1] > > - [2]

[gentoo-user] some spectre v1 code in 4.15.2

$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown:Mitigation: PTI /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigation: __user pointer sanitization /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic retpoline

Re: [gentoo-user] segfault in gedit / glib

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:59 PM, P Levine <plevine...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 9:01 PM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> System is ~amd64. If i try to open a text file in gnome via double click, >> i get; >> $ journalctl

[gentoo-user] segfault in gedit / glib

System is ~amd64. If i try to open a text file in gnome via double click, i get; $ journalctl -b | grep segf Dec 29 12:17:32 phat kernel: gedit[1177]: segfault at 7f7c0d36e880 ip 7f7c2550ba74 sp 7fff66834850 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.5200.3[7f7c254c+114000] The following work; Open

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?]: In search of a program to do different b/w dithering methods

> > I am looking for a command line tool... > I want to do 'mass dithering' and want neither a gui nor a > heavy program like The Gimp. > > I checked pbmplus and found no useful part for that porpuse... > Does this do what you want? Its installed by default with imagemagick

Re: [gentoo-user] after finally doing my emerge -e world successfully, my regular world update fails

> > sys-apps/openrc is probably in your world file. Either remove it, or > disable the "sysv-utils" USE flag on sys-apps/systemd. > > I'd like to trying going the other way. so i'll first; quickpkg sys-apps/openrc net-misc/netifrc sys-apps/sysvinit But virtual/service-manager is using openrc. How

Re: [gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 2:15 PM, P Levine wrote: > I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here before but there apparently is a > bug affecting all Intel CPUs manufactured in the last 10 years or so, in > which protected kernel memory is leaked to userspace. It can't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Expect a ~15% average slowdown if you use an Intel processor

> > Project Zero (Google) found it; > https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/ > reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html > > Phoronix has done some benchmarks on the impact of the kernel based > workaround ([Kernel] Page Table Isolation (PSI) nee Kaiser) >

[gentoo-user] vmware + ext4 issue

When i run a vmware workstation windows 10 guest on an ext4 nvme drive, I get a kernel crash. The same guest seems stable on an ext4 filesystem on a spinning disk. Should i report this to kernel devs, and if so, how? Dec 31 17:20:39 sysname kernel: [ cut here ] Dec 31

Re: [gentoo-user] Troubleshooting mounting local filesystems

> > > Can you cut and paste the terminal session of the post boot fixes? > > What are you asking for here? > Just fishing for more info because I cant think of any circumstance that would cause the issue you're seeing. If it were me i'd force an fsck on next reboot, then reboot. I just had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: old kernels are installed during the upgrade

> > And on that note I see that upstream just released 4.14.11 containing > what is widely speculated as a fix for an Intel CPU security > vulnerability. I noticed that it doesn't disable the > performance-impacting setting on AMD CPUs. Though, right now only AMD > could say whether this is

[gentoo-user] Spectre and Meltdown summary

No guarantees on accuracy... Meltdown CVE-2017-5754 (Variant3) - userspace reads kernel memory. Intel vulnerable, AMD not vulnerable. Issue is mitigated with KPTI (in kernel 4.14.11, Security Options -> Remove the kernel mapping in user mode (CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION), on by default for all

[gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary

Browser stuff I'm guessing this relates to Variant1; @hackerfantastic "Blackhats will be weaponizing spectre to steal session cookies from additional websites opened in the browser, especially financial sites. Enable site isolation in Chrome now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

> > > It even more strengthens my impression than I should first > > play with reconfiguring the kernel. > > I have loaded the new Gentoo system using the kernel from the old one > with no change in Firefox behaviour on https://www.privat24.ua/#login > page: it crashed as was described before. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes on some www-pages on a newer Gentoo system

> > > I would do something like 'emerge -1 xorg-server xorg-drivers > > @x11-module-rebuild mesa llvm clang' then restart X and try again. > > Thank you for your reply. > > Initially, I understood the above recomendation as the suggestion to > rebuild the packages mentioned above with different

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 60

> > Anyone early tested Thunderbird-60? > Yes, the mozilla overlay has it. Works.

Re: [gentoo-user] x86.c:(.text+0xb2): undefined reference to `l1tf_vmx_mitigation' with linux kernel 4.18.1

On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:15 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > CPU bugs seem to be more and more common: > https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Linux-Kernel-und- > Distributionen-schuetzen-vor-Prozessorluecke-Foreshadow-L1TF-4137264.html > https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Spectre-NG-Foreshadow- >

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 60

> > Is this the access you refer to? > > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla.git > > Yep, that's it. If you want to try it you'll want to emerge layman https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ebuild_repository#Layman More bleeding edge than ~arch, so keep that in mind.

Re: [gentoo-user] python-3.6.5 rebuild fails on new install

> > I just tried with MAKEOPTS="-j1" and got the same failure output at > the same place. I normally run with the number equal to the number of > cores. On this notebook MAKEOPTS="-j2". Are there any other > memory-conserving tweaks available? > I guess you've stopped all the non-essential

[gentoo-user] /boot filesystem, SSDs, TRIM

For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki still does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on a system whose other filesystems are ext4) these days? AFAIK for systems that have /boot on an SSD, ext4 makes more sense due to discard support, and for non-SSD

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle

> > The machine is actually a server, which just sat in a corner doing its > job perfectly. That's one of the reasons it wasn't updated: if it ain't > broken, don't fix it. > Any system that is not getting software updates is broken to some degree, just in a subtle way. Trimming your

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot filesystem, SSDs, TRIM

> > How often are you writing to /boot anyways? Journalling is of little > benefit in that case, and imposes more wear+tear on SSD drives. Or is > it possible to turn off journaling for one partition under ext4? > I review the Changlog on every point release and update the kernel if there's

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot filesystem, SSDs, TRIM

> > The other question is why use GRUB on a modern system? UEFI boot managers > are far simpler to work with than GRUBs monster configuration file and in > that case it makes sense to combine /boot with the ESP and use VFAT for > it. > I couldn't grok the Gentoo UEFI setup instructions before

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox & ALSA

> > Does anyone know of a reason why this would happen? > Is firefox built with pulseaudio? If so, check the pavucontrol settings too (media-sound/pavucontrol) Perhaps VLC is talking directly to ALSA, but firefox is talking to pulseaudio to get to ALSA, and there's an issue with pulse

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 4.9.77 error segfault in compile.

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 2:51 AM, Corbin Bird wrote: > Anyone else getting this error? ( kernel 4.9.77 ) > > > CC fs/ext4/mballoc.o > > CC fs/ext4/block_validity.o > > CC fs/ext4/move_extent.o > > CC fs/ext4/mmp.o > > CC

Re: [gentoo-user] A new AMD CPU weakness?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> > wrote: > >> 180313 Ian Zimmerman wrote: >> > https://v.gd/PZkiuR >> > Does anyone know more details? &g

Re: [gentoo-user] A new AMD CPU weakness?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 180313 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > https://v.gd/PZkiuR > > Does anyone know more details? > > See LWN. It is being described as a scam by people shorting AMD stock. Dan Guido / Trail of Bits was paid to review the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repair FAT-fs

> > > [10930894.488038] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: > hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE > > [10930894.488041] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Hardware Error > [current] > > [10930894.488043] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional > sense information > >

[gentoo-user] List of Intel CPUs that wont get Meltdown/Spectre fixes

https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/04/microcode-update-guidance.pdf From https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/04/intel_spectre_microcode_updates/ "The new guidance , issued

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-391+ does not support latest GPU?

> I think of security incidents like meltdown/spectre for example... > LTS kernels are maintained, so they get all the required patches.

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell Precision Workstation Overheating

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 11:22 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: > I was compiling Gentoo, as is custom, but found my old new server to > be thermal cycling wildly. The fans will turn on full blast and > machine check errors will be generated if I use approximately more > than one third to half

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Hardened vs Kali Linux

> > I want to learn from scratch securing Linux and ethical hacking. Should I >> do as the most people so install Kali Linux on virtual machine or install >> Gentoo Hardened with Pentoo overlay on my PC? I heard a lot of negative >> opinions about Kali Linux. >> > If you haven't installed and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Hardened vs Kali Linux

Do people actually dual boot with pentesting distros? I was always > under the impression you were supposed to load it from removable > storage Blackhats would load from removable storage, but I imagine whitehats would prefer a stable setup with easy retention of info.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and addons no longer supported question

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I been holding off on upgrading Firefox. Basically, it breaks addons > that I just can't go without. Tab groups and some other tab utilities > are among them. I recently updated temporarily to see just what was >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A new AMD CPU weakness?

https://community.amd.com/community/amd-corporate/blog/2018/03/20/initial-amd-technical-assessment-of-cts-labs-research tl:dr bios updates to come

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ca-certificate to domain-name mapping question

On Monday, March 5, 2018, Walter Dnes wrote: > app-misc/ca-certificates splatters a bunch of files all over the > place. Question... is there a utility to figure out which domains any > particular certificate covers > A ca certificate may sign any domain cert, and new

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer

Happy with my OfficeJet Pro 8620.

[gentoo-user] AMD Tonga + kernel 4.19 broken

For me; Oct 25 15:34:51 phat kernel: fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb0) is primary device Oct 25 15:34:51 phat kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] failed to send message 148 ret is 0 Oct 25 15:34:51 phat kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] last message was failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM wrote: > > Hi, > > while syncing/updateing my system, inkscape failed to compile: > Nikos posted about cairo issue recently that revdep-rebuild didnt fix. I had a similar issue with different software. In my case; emerge -1 x11-libs/cairo dev-cpp/cairomm

Re: [gentoo-user] Inkscape failed to compile...(update from this morning)

On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 4:08 PM Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 3:41 PM wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> while syncing/updateing my system, inkscape failed to compile: >> > > Nikos posted about cairo issue recently that revdep-rebuild didnt f

Re: [gentoo-user] libQt5Core.so.5 => not found

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:33 PM wrote: > I'm trying to build/emerge dev-qt/qtgui-5.11.1, but I get this: > > # ldd > /Net/portage_tmpdir/portage/dev-qt/qtgui-5.11.1/work/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.11.1/bin/qvkgen > linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fff3ddff000) > libQt5Core.so.5 => not found

Re: [gentoo-user] libQt5Core.so.5 => not found

On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 3:51 PM Adam Carter wrote: > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:33 PM wrote: > >> I'm trying to build/emerge dev-qt/qtgui-5.11.1, but I get this: >> >> # ldd >> /Net/portage_tmpdir/portage/dev-qt/qtgui-5.11.1/work/qtbase-everywhere-src-5.11.1/bin/qvk

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall config problem

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 9:11 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning all, > > When emerging shorewall-5.2.1.1 I get an error from the kernel settings > check: > > CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4: is not set when it should be. > > This is with gentoo-sources-4.19.1. And indeed there is no such kernel >

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall config problem

> > > Yep, grepped my .config archive and its gone in 4.19 so the shorewall > > ebuild (at least) will need an update. Checked bugzilla? > > > Grepping .config will only work sometimes - If its enabled it will be > there, if not it "may or may not be" > My .config hasnt changed, other than from

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD Tonga + kernel 4.19 broken

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 12:57 PM Adam Carter wrote: > For me; > > Oct 25 15:34:51 phat kernel: fbcon: amdgpudrmfb (fb0) is primary device > Oct 25 15:34:51 phat kernel: amdgpu: [powerplay] > failed to send message 148 ret is 0 > Oct 25 15:34:51 p

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird compilation error (nasm)

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:20 AM wrote: > Hi, > > its gone this evening while updateing... Yeah the nasm update was backed out Fri May 11 15:25:38 2018 >>> dev-lang/nasm-2.13.03-r1 Mon Nov 12 12:27:25 2018 >>> dev-lang/nasm-2.14 Wed Nov 14 16:31:50 2018 >>> dev-lang/nasm-2.13.03-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] Shorewall config problem

> > That is odd. I tried inserting the IPV[4,6] .config entries by hand, but > oldconfig removed them again. > I'd say those entries are deprecated and that shorewall will just need an update to make it compatible with 4.19.

[gentoo-user] Re: X fails with old permissions errors

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 6:28 PM Adam Carter wrote: > Since around 4 days ago X wont run, and my web searches show i'm hitting > the same sorts of issues that arose when X moved away from running as root. > FYI, this was fixed by rebuilding pam. I needed to reboot after th

[gentoo-user] X fails with old permissions errors

libexec startx11.out 320 faccessat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap", X_OK) = 0 320 execve("/usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap", ["/usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap", "-nolisten", "tcp", ":0", "-auth", "/home/adam/.serverauth.303"], 0x55b02

[gentoo-user] OT: Noteworthy change in the way Chrome logs in

From: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/ "A few weeks ago Google shipped an update to Chrome that fundamentally changes the sign-in experience. From now on, every time you log into a Google property (for example, Gmail), Chrome will automatically *sign the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble on the horizon!

> Whatever SJWs touch, DIES. What do you think will be the outcome in this case? What will die and what be the indicator of death? > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VvJiNUCIA > > https://itsfoss.com/linux-code-of-conduct/ > >

[gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

I need to clean up a file which has IP addresses with leading zeros in some of the octets so I need to make, say, .09 into .9 How do i do that in sed/awk/whatever?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

> > > François-Xavier > > > > > > My bad, it should be: > > sed 's/0*\([0-9][0-9]*\)/\1/g' > > (tests are indeed needed!) > Many thanks François. This is almost right, but it is also stripping zeros that follow a letter, and I only want it to strip zeros that are proceeded by a period. There are

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 12:34 AM Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 1/21/19 9:55 PM, David Haller wrote: > > > > $ printf '0.1.2.3 01.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.000.3\n' | \ > > sed 's/0*\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1/g' > > 0.1.2.3 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.0.3 > > > > There are actually more than four examples that it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

> > $ printf '0.1.2.3 01.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.000.3\n' | \ > sed 's/0*\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1/g' > 0.1.2.3 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.0 1.2.0.3 > > > Hi David - thanks for that. So [[:digit:]] is another way of writing [0-9] and the + just means another instance of the proceeding expression, right, so your and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:49 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > So tell us what is your perfect country for hardware manufacturing? > > There isn't one as you can never be sure. You are presenting hope, and > maybe likelihood, as certainty when this does not exist. > Datapoint - looks like Bloomberg

[gentoo-user] Firefox 64 binaries - LLVM6+PGO+LTO now used, faster than GCC6.4+PGO

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Firefox-Clang-LTO-All-Platforms "Firefox nightly builds are now built with the LLVM Clang compiler on all major platforms and the Linux build in particular is also now utilizing PGO optimizations too. Faster Firefox is coming thanks to this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CPU upgrade and LVM questions.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 10:56 AM Dale wrote: > I agree. If you are committing international crimes, terrorism for > example, they will snoop on you and it doesn't matter much what you do or > use. If nothing else, they will put you on a super computer setup that > will crack whatever you are

Re: [gentoo-user] OT expect script question

> > Could it be that it just matches empty without waiting for anything? > Perhaps, but that would only matter if it is processing per character, not per line. I had assumed that it would not evaluate the blocks until it received an End of Line character, but I will test that assumption. Thanks

[gentoo-user] OT expect script question

In my response matching I would like to have a catch all so if nothing specific is matched I can take an action, but when I include the "*" option, it is selected even if string1 matches. From the expect man page "In the event that multiple patterns match, the one appearing first is used to select

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium

On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 7:41 AM Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 19:23:27 GMT Jack wrote: > Phew! The chromium emerge completed with -j1, although it took 4 hours > longer > than last time on one PC and 6.5 hours longer on another. > For those systems it might be worth trying the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

> > > On 2018-11-17, at 19:24, Grant Taylor > wrote: > > > > So, will someone help me fix this cargo / rust blockage so that I can > finish my @world emerge? > > Uninstall dev-util/cargo and emerge -1 dev-lang/rust. dev-lang/rust comes > with Cargo. > > I also had to ln -s /usr/bin/cargo-1.30.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

> > > I also had to > > > > ln -s /usr/bin/cargo-1.30.1 /usr/bin/cargo > > > > To get things working, YMMV. > > The correct way is to run `eselect rust set 1`. There are other symlinks > besides cargo. > > That was already set for me, but i re-ran it, and atime on the symlink was reset. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:52 PM Grant Taylor < gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 11/17/2018 06:11 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > Uninstall dev-util/cargo and emerge -1 dev-lang/rust. dev-lang/rust > > comes with Cargo. > > Hum. That didn't solve the problem. > Do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:55 PM Adam Carter wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 1:52 PM Grant Taylor < > gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > >> On 11/17/2018 06:11 PM, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> > Uninstall dev-util/cargo and emerge -1 dev-lang/rust. dev-l

[gentoo-user] -fstack-clash-protection vs -fstack-check

The systemd priv-esc (CVE-2018-16864) got me reading gcc's man page on -fstack-clash-protection, since https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/10/systemd_bugs_qualys/ claims that systems with it enabled are not vulnerable. I already have -fstack-check, however, if I try to run both, gcc 8.2

[gentoo-user] select + middle button paste in notepadqq

I find that pasting with the middle mouse button in notepadqq pastes the contents of the clipboard, not the last selected text like in other apps. Its been reported; https://github.com/notepadqq/notepadqq/issues/456 And there is a suggestion that it may be tweakable from outside notepadqq, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Rebuilding a kernel on a hardened gentoo

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:59 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 11.09.18 um 12:54 schrieb Mick: > > > Probably because you need a later version of gcc to compile the newer > kernel > > with. > > I already installed gcc-6.4.0 and 7.3.0 some times ago. These should be > modern enough? > Yep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update multiple failures

On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM Daniel Frey wrote: > On 4/2/19 5:17 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: > > Well, I haven't been bitten for quite a while now (years)... > > > > I have been doing updates to my mythtv frontends and I noticed this time > > around updating has been taking FOREVER. Something in

Re: [gentoo-user] Any gotchas with gcc 8.2

On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 11:46 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > I just did an emerge update after 6 or 7 weeks. I manually excluded > GCC 8.2.0 pending word if there are any problems. How is 8.2.0 working > for people? > ~amd64 users have been using it since August 2018, I haven't had any issues but

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 versions of binutils: requesting confirmation for eselect set

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 12:41 AM allan gottlieb wrote: > On one of my machines I see > > gottlieb@E6430 ~ $ eselect binutils list > [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.28.1 * > [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.29.1 > [3] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.30 > [4] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.31.1 > > But I also see > >

Re: [gentoo-user] davfs2 suddenly not working properly

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 9:16 AM John Covici wrote: > Hi. After my last world update, davfs2 is not working properly. > > I use it to mount my owncloud instance and it mounts fine, but the > umount always segfaults and > leaves the mount alone. Now, I can force to unmount by doing >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

> > something even worse. Since rebooting is when those tend to > fail/break/whatever, it is yet another reason I avoid rebooting. I take the opposite approach. If I update the kernel and reboot often, I see the following benefits; - Each increment in version is smaller, therefore there's less

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

> > > The classic one is where OPS haven't noticed that disks in a RAID array > have died years ago... > > This really happened? > Yeah. Spent huge money on NMSes but then didn't spend the relatively small amount on thorough integration to make it really worthwhile... It seems common to me that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

> Yep, and not just to Adam. I had to ask support twice to check their > array > because performance was degraded, but they preferred to blame (my) network > for > it. So much for keeping an eye on monitoring kit for their storage. > > Systems guys blame the networ

[gentoo-user] Tracking kernel patches

I need to use this patch; https://marc.info/?l=linux-block=155772952511144=2 Is there some way to track its progress toward inclusion in the stable release?

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow SSD

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 7:44 AM wrote: > I just put an SSD into my hp dl585g7. I used the provided sata SSD drive > connector, it's on the same sata driver that runs the optical drive. It's > terribly slow to boot etc. Is this just a slow controller designed to keep > up with an optical drive

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading (profiles, too)

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 8:41 AM wrote: > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2019 um 00:20 Uhr > > Von: "Dale" > > I've done upgrades that skip quite a ways using make oldconfig. I've > > never had any issues. If it were me, I'd just make the jump but make > > sure to keep the old kernel around

Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating portage, continued

> Consider slots. I'm sure I've read that slots are used to allow multiple > ... versions? configurations? of the same package to be installed. It was > gradually dawning on me, that it's the developer who specifies the slot. > Now, I can't figure out what use case that benefits, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

> > You can use more swap (files) before buying more RAM. > > I have been doing this too. It only get used during the big builds. To create a 32G swap file and enable it (OP can do this now as the build runs, to keep OOM away) # fallocate -l 32G && chmod 600 && mkswap && swapon use 'watch

[gentoo-user] New Intel CPU flaws discovered

Here we go again; https://mdsattacks.com/ I notice a microcode update for skylake came through yesterday after being unchanged since the late June 2018, so i'm guessing this is patched for this issue. Just waiting for the gentoo sources ebuild to be bumped to 5.1.2 to try it out. Sounds like AMD

[gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 3:26 PM Adam Carter wrote: > Here we go again; > https://mdsattacks.com/ > > > Sounds like AMD not affected. > AMD looks good; $ uname -a Linux proxy 5.1.2-gentoo #2 SMP Wed May 15 16:39:53 AEST 2019 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 965 Processor AuthenticA

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

> > This appears to be OK on my CPU but want to ask to be sure. Here's some > info, sort of taking cues from what you posted above. > > > root@fireball / # uname -a > Linux fireball 4.18.12-gentoo #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 14 23:45:12 CDT 2018 > x86_64 AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

Using classes is pretty old terminology. IETF introduced CIDR in '93! Yes, I still catch myself doing it too.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 10:29 AM Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: > > Using classes is pretty old terminology. IETF introduced CIDR in '93! Yes, > I still catch myself doing it too. > > > But I understand what classes was. If CIDR replaced the word classes, I > would h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

> But I understand what classes was. If CIDR replaced the word classes, I >> would have had to google or ask what the heck that is. lol >> > > CIDR moved Internet routing away from fixed 8, 16 and 24 bit netmasks. The > / representation is CIDR. > The C in CIDR is for Classless :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

> > OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is what > I was trying to copy to, the machine only has one HD. > lsblk is nice $ lsblk NAMEMAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 931.5G 0 disk └─sda18:10 931.5G 0 part /var nvme0n1

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

> > The error was because i ran it in a remote shell. Running it locally now > and it shows HEVC. I don't have any 8 bit HEVCs files so i'm transcoding > one to 8bit now. > > Ok confirmed that 8 bit HEVC is low CPU and doesn't skip frames, so that's that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Decent single-user/embedded-device security standard

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:30 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > When the security auditors come through and ask what standard I use for > securing my systems I'd like to have something to tell them. > > I've had a few suggestions like USGCB, etc. But looking at them they > all seem to start from the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

> No, it's my way to run things as root, in general. I distrust su, sudo > and friends. > su is mature, well understood and the standard way of doing things. If you had run an extra term in your X session that had been su'd to root, you wouldn't be exposing a root shell at the console. Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

> > $ dmesg | grep -i micro > > [0.622441] [drm] Loading ARUBA Microcode > > [5.763242] [drm] Loading hainan Microcode > > [6.653025] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119 > > [6.657962] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119 > > [6.658890] microcode: CPU2:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

grep fam /proc/cpuinfo -> 21 = 15h -> 22 = 16h

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

> > lsdrv looks like lsblk, it's just that it handles afaik pretty much > everything - starts with the disk, then lists any partitions, any lvm's, > any raids, etc etc. > What does lsdrv have that lsblk is missing? lsblk is part of util-linux so its everywhere, which is handy.

[gentoo-user] FYI on kernel 5.2 systemd may fail to bring up the network

Happened on 2/2 systems tested. You can bring the interface up manually if you're at the console. Error looks like systemd-networkd[252]: enp5s0: Could not bring up interface: Invalid argument Looks like its fixed in git https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/12784

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

> > Missed this, you can use `vainfo` and it should tell you the profiles it > supports. > $ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.4.0 X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation) Major opcode of failed request: 154 (DRI2) Minor opcode of failed request:

Re: [gentoo-user] skylake and x265 movie display

On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 11:22 AM Adam Carter wrote: > Missed this, you can use `vainfo` and it should tell you the profiles it >> supports. >> > > $ vainfo > libva info: VA-API version 1.4.0 > X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such >

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