[gentoo-user] Re: Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

2017-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-12-05, Holger Hoffstätte <hol...@applied-asynchrony.com> wrote: > On Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:42:45 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> There are a number of third-party binary executables that I use >> regularly on my Gentoo systems. [...] >> >> Is swit

[gentoo-user] Will profile 17.0 break 3rd party binaries?

2017-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
by their respective vendors. Is switching to the new 17.0 profile likely to break them? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! FOOLED you! Absorb at EGO SHATTERING impulse gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: #gentoo experiences

2017-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-11-19, Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo. Just curious: what is "#gentoo"? Something to do with Twitter? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems copmiling firefox 57.0 (linking phase)

2017-11-16 Thread Grant Edwards
much easier to spot the source of the problem. Of course the build takes longer. [And if you're building on a laptop where you've unwittingly broken the CPU clock throttling stuff, and it's running at 1/4 speed, it _really_ takes a long time.] -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

2017-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
gt; >>> >>> You can set your optimization preferences in make.conf, and still an >>> ebuild will override them if deemed unsafe. What would be the >>> difference? >>> >> >> Ebuilds are not supposed to do this, so if you file a bug report >>

[gentoo-user] Re: memset_s

2017-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
ode of packages? "They" review the source code for the Linux kernel, Gnome, KDE, Qt, Chrome, Firefox, GCC, and 24670 thousand other packages and make sure they all follow Gentoo coding standards? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Internal compiler error when compiling Chromium-62.0.3202.75

2017-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-11-09, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Strangely enough, I rebooted and this time it compiled without any > error! o_O > > So, all is well that ends well. :-) Ah, to be young and optimistic again... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: Internal compiler error when compiling Chromium-62.0.3202.75

2017-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
een a hardware problem. Every time except one, it was failing RAM. I'd run memtest86 overnight. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm definitely not at in Omaha! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux USB security holes.

2017-11-08 Thread Grant Edwards
by somebody who is allowed to touch the machine is indeed delusion on a pretty grand scale. Expecting a machine to be immune to other non-DoS attacks when they can touch the machine is moderately deluded. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Don't hit me!! I'm in at the Twilight Zone!!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up claws mail

2017-10-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-20, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 20 October 2017 15:29:28 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2017-10-20, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >> > I don't think that can be it, because there's no sign of authenti

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set up claws mail

2017-10-20 Thread Grant Edwards
ogged in. > [09:55:57] POP3> STAT > [09:55:58] POP3< +OK 0 0 > [09:55:58] POP3> QUIT > [09:55:58] POP3< +OK Goodbye. See you again sometime :) In the response to the STAT command, the server says there is no mail. What is it that you expect claws to do when there is no mail

[gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

2017-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ewall/router. A lot of the cheap consumer models are starting to "support" IPv6 by default when it appears to them that the ISP supports IPv6. But, the default IPv6 firewall/router settings aren't always usable. -- Grant Edwards gr

[gentoo-user] What's up with larry the cow dot org?

2017-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
chasing Your Laptop" "The Best Laptop computer Suggestions For Commencing Consumers" For 14 months ending in January 2016, the content was updated monthly. AFAICT, there are no ads, no trackers, no malware. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

2017-10-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-13, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > And is there a way to build systemd without ipv6? Or am I going to have > to revert these three systems back to openrc? ^^ You misspelled "upgrade". ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-11 Thread Grant Edwards
cts." The assumption presumably being that your _customers_ could also figure that out from reviewing your ISO9000 documentation. I have no idea how many customers actually do a good enough review of their vendors' ISO9000 documents to figure it out... -- Grant Edwards gran

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-09, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, October 9, 2017, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2017-10-09, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> >>> This is a know bug see https://bugs.gentoo.org/633790

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
anging the version number, but maybe that's just me... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Being a BALD HERO at is almost as FESTIVE as a gmail.comTATTOOED KNOCKWURST.

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-09, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > This is a know bug see https://bugs.gentoo.org/633790 Yep, that's it. Yet when you search for roundingflags or shapedtextflags in Gentoo's bugzilla, it finds nothing. Has the search feature in Bugzilla ever worked? -- Gran

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-09, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-10-09, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In this case the namespace of the missing declaration is inside >> Mozilla's, e.g. it is part of Firefox or a closely bundled library. >

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
so I've just started another firefox build with MAKEOPTS=-j1. The USE flag settings for firefox appear to be the same as my other systems where it builds without error. Weird. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
ut these issues are hard to diagnose. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-08, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 8 October 2017 18:02:43 BST Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I was afraid it might be failing RAM, but a second attempt failed in >> exactly the same way. I guess I'll delete the ebuild files and the &g

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-10-08, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 8 October 2017 03:51:41 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> 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

[gentoo-user] emerge firefox-52.4.0 compile failure

2017-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
0/work/firefox-52.4.0esr/config/rules.mk:951: Unified_cpp_gfx_thebes0.o] Error 1 make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs Google provides zero hits for any of those three errors. Does this look familiar to anybody? -- Grant

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

2017-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
d. Sure enough, deleting large files on xfs didn't cause problems. * It was probably ext3 back then, so it's possible none of this applies to ext4. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's OKAY -- I'm an at IN

[gentoo-user] Re: Multiple network interfaces and openrc

2017-09-20 Thread Grant Edwards
work if either # one comes up. With rc_depend_strict="YES" we would require them both to # come up. rc_depend_strict="NO" -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! for ARTIFICIAL at FLAVORING!! gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
-help=target | grep march= >>>> ...for all the target machines? >>> >>> >>> Let's see how -mtune=native goes and resort to the above if necessary. >>> It doesn't look too bad though. >> >> >> emerge -e world has finished and pushed and -mtune=native seems to >> have solved the issue for now. >> > > You might be interested in "-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic" though this > will mean you might miss out on some optimizations. If I could miss out on optimizations, what is the advantage compared to -mtune=native? Better compatibility across CPUs? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
tend to write. This part depends on how complex your > stuff is and how many exceptions you have to the rule. > > You're the only one that knows if the result will be worth while, so > like all new toys I suppose the best approach is to tinker with it a > bit, see if you like it, then decide if you think it worthwhile to proceed. Will do, thanks Alan. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
machines are Intel "Atom" family, do *NOT* use >> a "march=" that implements the "movbe" instruction. >> >> booby trap 2) If you throw in any AMD-based machines proceed with care. >> >> Can you post the output of... >> gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target | grep march= >> ...for all the target machines? > > > Let's see how -mtune=native goes and resort to the above if necessary. > It doesn't look too bad though. emerge -e world has finished and pushed and -mtune=native seems to have solved the issue for now. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
>> ansible does sound pretty cool. I'll check it out if I outgrow my >> script but as long as I can keep using Dell XPS 13 laptops I don't >> think it will have any trouble scaling. > > For those dug in minimalists among us, there is also app-admin/cdist. Have you tried ansible? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
ot; instruction. > > booby trap 2) If you throw in any AMD-based machines proceed with care. > > Can you post the output of... > gcc -c -Q -march=native --help=target | grep march= > ...for all the target machines? Let's see how -mtune=native goes and resort to the above if necessary. It doesn't look too bad though. Thanks, Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
But X should get it right if I use: DisplaySize 294 166 - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-05 Thread Grant
tive res of 3200x1800 so that's what I *should* be using with DPI set a lot higher than 140 I believe, but when it gets that high things get weird. However I'm not sure how much of that can be alleviated by the DE. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
ying way too many > files you didn't intend to. Like /var/run...) It truly sounds great but the devil is in the details in my particular environment. If I feel like I'm outgrowing my script (and maybe even if I don't) I'll dig into ansible. How big of a duty is the implementation? Thanks, Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
for people who like xfce4? > > > You could try LXQt, which is the upcoming replacement for LXDE. It's > Qt-based, so DPI scaling *should* work well (no guarantees, didn't try it > myself yet.) And its desktop philosophy is more similar to XFCE, meaning > minimalist, non-bloated UIs. > > Anyway, if I were you, I'd just try all of them using live-CDs/USBs from > various distros, and see what works best. LXDE, LXQt, Gnome, KDE, Budgie, > those seem to be the main ones right now. Great tips, thank you Nikos. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
m to have very good support for this. Maybe you > can find some of the settings listed there useful though. > > Other than that, if you want working DPI scaling, you'll have much better > luck with KDE 5 / Plasma. Won't I freak out if I'm an xfce4 guy and I try to switch to KDE? Is there a better choice for HiDPI migration for people who like xfce4? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
(so it catches > up later), and needs only sshd and python to do it's magic :-) ansible does sound pretty cool. I'll check it out if I outgrow my script but as long as I can keep using Dell XPS 13 laptops I don't think it will have any trouble scaling. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
, and/or > b) the screen is reporting the wrong size to the driver. I'm getting strange results from xdpyinfo. I always get 96x96 DPI and the screen size changes along with the resolution. When I run 'xrandr --dpi 200x200' and check xdpyinfo, it reports correctly. But if I log out and back in to xfce4 without doing anything else, it gives me 96x96 again. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
t;x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" > CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" Switching to -mtune=native seems to work. Time for an emerge -e world. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Lowest common denominator compile

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
nstruction sets on the master laptop when compiling to hopefully generate binaries that will work on the older systems? If so, could anyone point me in the right direction? I don't want to use distcc please. CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
> On such a small screen, the result should be a very high DPI (around 282.) >> If that's not the number you get, then your graphics driver is reporting it >> wrong to Xorg, and you need to set it manually. > > > This led me to the DisplaySize parameter for xorg.conf which helps a lot. > > Thanks, > Grant Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your screen in mm? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
;> >>>> Is it the conditionals that cause this to be a bad idea? Because I >>>> believe udev has functionality designed to rename devices exactly like >>>> this. >>> >>> udev doesn't provide any functionality to rename device nodes. You can >>> adjust their permissions, and create symlinks, but there is no direct >>> way to rename them. >> >> >> I use stuff like this to rename my USB devices and it works perfectly: >> >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_NET_NAME_PATH}=="enp0s20u2u1", >> NAME="net0" >> >> Isn't this a true rename of the device node? > > Network devices don't have device nodes. They have interface names, > which are a different concept entirely. OK I'll take your advice and change the script to detect /dev/nvme0n1. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
itions between the kernel and udev. It's a >>> bad idea. >> >> >> Is it the conditionals that cause this to be a bad idea? Because I >> believe udev has functionality designed to rename devices exactly like >> this. > > udev doesn't provide any functionality to rename device nodes. You can > adjust their permissions, and create symlinks, but there is no direct > way to rename them. I use stuff like this to rename my USB devices and it works perfectly: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_NET_NAME_PATH}=="enp0s20u2u1", NAME="net0" Isn't this a true rename of the device node? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-04 Thread Grant
to use labels for this, I would need to label each of my potentially-connected devices, correct? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-03 Thread Grant
gt; > You might technically be able to do it, but I would guess it would > cause some nasty race conditions between the kernel and udev. It's a > bad idea. Is it the conditionals that cause this to be a bad idea? Because I believe udev has functionality designed to rename devices exactly like this. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-03 Thread Grant
ename /dev/sda to /dev/sd[b-z] if /dev/sda and /dev/nvme0n1 exist, and then rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda if /dev/nvme0n1 exists? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-03 Thread Grant
r to use labels? Those are automatically available on > /dev/disk/by-label, and you can use them in basically any type of partition, > including Windows (NTFS and vfat) and swaps. Do labels work with root= in grub and stuff like dd, fdisk, and mkfs? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-03 Thread Grant
very high DPI (around 282.) > If that's not the number you get, then your graphics driver is reporting it > wrong to Xorg, and you need to set it manually. This led me to the DisplaySize parameter for xorg.conf which helps a lot. Thanks, Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-01 Thread Grant
reat I meant in comparison to running 3200x1800 with defaults (unusable) or running 1600x900 (blurry and hard to look at). Admittedly this is not a good place for Linux desktop to be. Is there a good way to run xrandr when X starts so it doesn't have to be run per user and will apply to lightdm? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-01 Thread Grant
n is to patch xrandr with the capability to do nearest neighbor filtering and run xrandr like this: xrandr --output eDP1 --mode "3200x1800" --scale "0.5x0.5" It works great. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-09-01, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which > makes everything crazy small on-screen. Is there a good method for > telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my > appl

[gentoo-user] High resolution on a 13 inch screen

2017-09-01 Thread Grant
My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which makes everything crazy small on-screen. Is there a good method for telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my applications? I can adjust the resolution down but it makes the colors look weird. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Rename /dev/nvme0n1 to /dev/sda

2017-09-01 Thread Grant
11:34 /dev/nvme0 brw-rw 1 root disk 259, 0 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1 brw-rw 1 root disk 259, 1 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p1 brw-rw 1 root disk 259, 2 Aug 31 11:34 /dev/nvme0n1p2 - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: processor speed

2017-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
ark Williams Coherent v7 Unix clone.] The original keyboard is still going strong! -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Should I get locked at in the PRINCICAL'S gmail.comOFFICE toda

Re: [gentoo-user] Install on ZFS

2017-08-15 Thread Grant
t;>Can I pull this off from here or do I need to mail a different CD to my >>host? >> >>This server has 6 SSDs and I'm planning to set up a 2-way stripe and >>3-way mirror. Any tips that might help me pull this off? >> >>- Grant > > I did this not to

[gentoo-user] Install on ZFS

2017-08-15 Thread Grant
CD to my host? This server has 6 SSDs and I'm planning to set up a 2-way stripe and 3-way mirror. Any tips that might help me pull this off? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-08-07 Thread Grant
n-source/documentation/howto.html Thank you but I may have found a way to boot a CD after all: http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/learning/what-media-data-transfer-service - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

2017-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
he joker that thought that one up. > $ equery keywords sys-devel/gcc > > is more clear on this. Thanks, I should have known to not use a web page for something that had a command-line tool. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm a fuschia bowling

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

2017-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-08-01, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 16:00:07 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 01/08/2017 15:55, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > On 2017-08-01, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> Everyone is expected to be on at

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

2017-08-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-08-01, Mart Raudsepp <l...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Everyone is expected to be on at least GCC 5 now. OK, next dumb question: There are 11 versions marked as stable for amd64. How does one find out which version of GCC one is "expected to be on"?

[gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure

2017-07-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-07-31, Mateusz Lenik <m...@mlen.pl> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:02:34PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> ../../third_party/vulkan-validation-layers/src/loader/debug_report.c:50:5: >> note: use option -std=c99, -std=gnu99, -std=c11 or -std=gnu11 to

[gentoo-user] chromium 60 build failure

2017-07-31 Thread Grant Edwards
It looks like chromeium 60 just went stable for AMD64. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to build for me. I've googled the gcc error message from the build log, and the only thing I can find is somebody claiming it's caused by a bungled upgrade to gcc 5.x. I haven't upgrade to gcc 5.x, so that

[gentoo-user] Re: maim screenshooting

2017-07-31 Thread Grant Edwards
er the widow you do want a screenshot of. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hold the MAYO & pass at the COSMIC AWARENESS ... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

2017-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
ainful as possible. They're also likely (in a usually vain attempt to teach a lesson) to answer the question you asked rather than the question you intended to ask. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

2017-07-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-07-29, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2017-07-29 18:48, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > PROMPT='Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): ' >> > read -p $PROMPT device >> >> Nit: that doesn't work quite right either. It should be >

[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

2017-07-29 Thread Grant Edwards
MPT" device or read -p 'Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): ' device -- Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-21 Thread Grant
ware >> that has control over your physical hardware). > > > Is there a way to make the KVM connection without becoming an expert in > OpenVPN? OK you guys win. Can anyone point me toward docs on the easiest way to set up the connection? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Grant
hich is probably what they > are asking you to do, is not a waste of time. KVM or some variation of > it is the standard way to do this (though I very much detest it, as > each server is essentially preinstalled with unmodifiable firmware > that has control over your physical hardware). Is there a way to make the KVM connection without becoming an expert in OpenVPN? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Grant
, and then chroot into your disk :) The rescue kernel seems to only boot the same OS read-only and maybe some other tweaks. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think I'll be able to partition/format my disk after booting the rescue kernel since I'll be working from the OS running on the same disk I need to partition/format. Since I have multiple disks, could I boot sda as usual, install something I can boot to on sdb, switch the boot order and boot to sdb, install Gentoo on sda, switch the boot order back and boot into Gentoo on sda? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Grant
tps://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/learning/introduction-no-os > > Is the rescue kernel likely a way to boot to some attached OS with tools? > > Also I have several identical disks on this system if there's a way to > leverage that for this purpose. I booted the "Rescue" and I think it's the same OS except read-only and probably some other tweaks. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Grant
gt; OpenVPN. At times I even had a "ssh -D" SOCKS proxy on the other end, > so double encryption, with no slowdown to notice. > > Now if SoftLayer or the warty tools they provide want a particular kind > of VPN, that would be real problem. Potential rabbit hole. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Grant
way to boot to some attached OS with tools? Also I have several identical disks on this system if there's a way to leverage that for this purpose. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Grant
ection? I've always read that OpenVPN is a bear and I've been lucky enough to avoid needing it all this time. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Small and dirty 32 bit environment just to flash my Bus Pirate

2017-07-19 Thread Grant Edwards
ese days, a LiveUSB.) Doesn't systemrescuecd still have a 32-bit boot option? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The entire CHINESE at WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL TEAM all

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

2017-07-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-07-15, Matthias Hanft <m...@hanft.de> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> Well, the return type for time() changed from "int" (or was it long?) >> to "time_t" many years back. That said, the actual underlying >> representation has neve

[gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

2017-07-14 Thread Grant Edwards
any years back. That said, the actual underlying representation has never changed on 32-bit Linux systems. Posix requires it to be signed, and on 32-bit Linux systems, it's still going to overflow in 2038 -- same as it ever was. NetBSD and OpenBSD both changed to signed-64 on both 32-bit and 64-bit

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-07-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-06, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of >> directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked &

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-06-16, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-06-16, Ian Zimmerman <i...@primate.net> wrote: > >> The last time I tried MTP was on Debian maybe 2 years ago or 3 years, >> using the jmtpfs package. IIRC this was what happened; yes, I

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-16 Thread Grant Edwards
├── amazonmp3 │   └── temp ├── Android │   ├── data │   │   ├── com.amazon.kindle │   │   │   ├── cache │   │   │   │   └── uil-images [...] 475 directories, 3238 files -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hel

[gentoo-user] Re: ntp Vs openntp vis a vis Plasma desktop

2017-06-16 Thread Grant Edwards
, That seems like perfectly reasonable and correct behavior. Why is it an issue? > so I added the dep. There's been some pushback on this so maybe > it'll be reverted or maybe not. It's being tracked in bug #621754 > for anyone who wants to chime in. -- Grant Edwards gr

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-16 Thread Grant Edwards
ry and everything underneath it the exact same way I would if it were a USB-storage device. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Gee, I feel kind of at LIGHT in the head now,

[gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread Grant Edwards
time to give up on Firefox? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are you still an at ALCOHOLIC? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

2017-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-05-22, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 22 May 2017 18:33:47 Grant Edwards wrote: >> Having just recently allowed Firefox to upgrade from 45 to 52, I'm now >> hobbled with the GTK3 file browser dialog. >> >> It's horrible. >>

[gentoo-user] Wow, the GTK3 file browser is awful!

2017-05-22 Thread Grant Edwards
tting Ctrl-L makes it minimally functional, and I can at least enter a path again. I shall probably die still longing for the days of GTK2... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I had pancake makeup at

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin 52.1.0 stopped using selected keybindings

2017-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-05-19, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > The latetest firefox-bin 52.1.0 seems to no longer obey gtk's assigned > keybindings. I use emacs keybindings, and all other gtk apps still > seem to work fine. > > Can anybody provide any hint as to how yo

[gentoo-user] firefox-bin 52.1.0 stopped using selected keybindings

2017-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
The latetest firefox-bin 52.1.0 seems to no longer obey gtk's assigned keybindings. I use emacs keybindings, and all other gtk apps still seem to work fine. Can anybody provide any hint as to how you set the keybindings in firefox-bin 52.1.0? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

2017-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-05-15, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > During a routine update, emerge failed to compile nfs-utils: > > [...] > > context.c:40:26: fatal error: rpc/auth_gss.h: No such file or directory >#include And of course immediatly after po

[gentoo-user] nfs-utils update fails to compile: missing rpc/auth_gss.h

2017-05-15 Thread Grant Edwards
other than a Sabayon user posting on a Gentoo list/forum many years ago about the exact same error message. He was told to go away. Where is rpc/auth_gss.h supposed to come from, and why does the nfs-utils ebuild suddenly expect it to be present? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Horrible English

2017-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
able to read anything at all without the > eye of an editor - it's ruined my enjoyment of everything I > read. There's no hope any longer.) And that's your excuse for being rude and bitching out somebody for minor grammar mistakes in work they're doing for you for free? You o

[gentoo-user] Re: htop wants cgroups

2017-05-08 Thread Grant Edwards
eatures will be disabled" > > Hey, this is _very_ different to have some extra stuff off and > to have core stuff with "unexpected problems". I agree. If cgroups is disabled in the kernel, then a tool omitting features to support cgroups is _not_ an "unexpected problem

[gentoo-user] Re: In search of an truecolor-capable terminal emulator

2017-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
actually _does_ in an ANSI terminal emulator. The ANSI escape sequences only allow for 16 colors. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base at JULIENNED and stir-fried! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ftp?

2017-04-27 Thread Grant Edwards
nal Firewire RAID array. The really convenient thing about it is that backup is simply a set of directory trees that you can peruse at any time to verify that backups are occuring or to look at old versions of files. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm havi

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 5.4.0

2017-04-24 Thread Grant Edwards
help. It's emerged okay. In my experience, internal GCC errors that show up intermittently and/or only under heavly load usually means failing RAM (or more rarely, some other hardware problem: something bad on the PCI bus, failing swap parition, etc.). I'd run memtest86 overnight, if I were you...

[gentoo-user] Pay attention to what 'emerge' tells you.

2017-04-19 Thread Grant Edwards
. Now update the next machine... same conflicts. This time I paid closer attention to the emerge output and added '--backtrack=30' as it suggested. Then the update worked ran no problem. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! BELA LUGOSI is my

[gentoo-user] Re: Sizing up power supplies [was: switching adapter - power supply]

2017-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
al/max power consumption numbers, but for other components it's hopeless. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! This PIZZA symbolizes at my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL gmail.comRECOVERY!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Flashing hardware via WINE ?

2017-03-19 Thread Grant Edwards
l data on Windows (using sysinternals 'portmon') than it is on Linux (you can do it with strace, but it's not easy). > Earth is flat and there was no landing on the moon. > > I believe in Santa Claus. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiping the old root without killing the new root

2017-03-17 Thread Grant Edwards
arition. If you just want an empty filesystem then just run 'mkfs -t' on the partition. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Uh-oh!! I forgot at to submit to COMPULSORY gmail.comURINALYSIS!

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Am Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:41:41 + (UTC) > schrieb Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > >> On 2017-03-15, Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Especially

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Grant Edwards
depends on what shell you're running. That's true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells. It's not true with some others. When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is done by the shell: the way god intended. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! H

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

2017-03-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-14, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14/03/2017 17:45, Grant Edwards wrote: >> After I do an update, I get this message: >> >> !!! existing preserved libs: >> >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 >>*

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