Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't know the first thing about emacs, but it may need bringing up a terminal first which in turn runs emacs. You may want to try selecting the Run in terminal or invoke it like so: xterm -e /usr/bin/emacs This should not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [konqueror] Can't invoke and editor when `view source'

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Håkon Alstadheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Don't know the first thing about emacs, but it may need bringing up a terminal first which in turn runs emacs. You may want to try selecting the Run

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem

James Homuth wrote: At 06:58 AM 29/01/2008, you wrote: Hello, I have problem with postfix. I just want to send email to other mail server from my new postfix/courier server. Every time I write address different then local server (postfix) returns info 5.7.1 (some address): Relay access

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Horribly off-topic linux distro question...

Mick wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:27:51 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote: In the context of online banking, where Windows of some flavour is the desktop OS, I see a substantial risk arising through spyware and/or viruses. I suspect that

Re: [gentoo-user] Be careful when using dhcp with a LiveCD

Billy Holmes wrote: I guess eventually all dhcp implementations will catch up with this change, although for now it is bound to create some problems with particular DHCP You could try disconnecting your cable modem for about 10 minutes, ensuring the ISP recognizes that it's offline, and

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

Simon wrote: Hi there, i've recently acquired a pda (htc tytn) and a good data plan. Right now, i can access the internet from my computer by setting up the phone as a wifi ad-hoc station, but this takes so much battery, it's not the optimal setup. What i would need is to use the usb cable

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about xorg and a kill process

Daniel da Veiga wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:03, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hung Dang wrote: I often use Ctrl+F1 to F6 to back to the command line and if your X is fine you can back the X screen using Ctrl+F7. Or if you want to kill your X then Ctrl+Alt+Backspace may be

[gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

If anybody knows a better arena to field this question, please let me know. My system is a single-core old fashioned intel system. uname -a reports: Linux medisin 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 #3 PREEMPT Sun Aug 3 11:40:41 CEST 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux # qfile

Re: [gentoo-user] Top values don't add up

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 19 August 2008 15:30:07 Dale wrote: Håkon Alstadheim wrote: SNIP I'm running the machine for multi-media-use, and I would like to make sure that I tune the media-programs to leave sufficcient cpu to handle the odd house-keeping task, while at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending RSS feeds via email

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 18 September 2008 22:24:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a tool that fetches RSS feeds and sends new articles to a given email address? Momesso Andrea What's wrong with cron, wget, diff and mail? See

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp att woes

Since this thread has been going on for so long without a resolution, I thought I'd mention that I recently switched to nullmailer from ssmtp. Im using port 587 with STARTTLS, and I find nullmailer way easier to set up. Just put --user and --pass parameters in /etc/nullmailer/remotes.

[gentoo-user] emerge sys-apps/hwinfo-13.0 fails, missing function dbus_connection_disconnect in sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2

for disks, X (drm) and all manner of other things. The obvious replacement for hwinfo --cpu is cat /proc/cpuinfo, but for the other stuff I feel like I'm stumbling in the dark... -- Håkon Alstadheimtlf: 74 82 60 27 mob: 47 35 39 38 7510 Skatval http://alstadheim.priv.no/hakon

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] umask and sticky bit

do not want. I can not think of a fully automatic solution to what you want to do. -- Håkon Alstadheim / N-7510 Skatval / email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tlf: 74 82 60 27 mob: 47 35 39 38 http://alstadheim.priv.no/hakon/ spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1 hit you are out -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] The next step in AV

whatever apps you start show themselves on the tv rather than on your laptop. -- Håkon Alstadheim spamtrap: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1 hit you are out -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

a simpler task. Whilst bind and sendmail have made substantial efforts to be more secure, they are still built on legacy and bloated monolithic code. Just to fill in the picture a bit, the djb* software also has a long flip-the-bird-at-any-rfc-you-don't-like track-record. -- Håkon Alstadheim

Re: [gentoo-user] my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

I've been having some issues myself (mythtv manages to mess up my screen royally, I need to switch to a text virtual console and back to X to make the screen legible after viewing a TV-recording in myth). I just noticed that the version of the headers for xcb do not match the version on libxcb

Re: [gentoo-user] Opera 10.10 says I've got Java?

Mick skrev: Version information Version 10.10 Build 4742 Platform Linux System i686, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 Qt library 4.5.3 Java Java Runtime Environment installed However, for all I know I do not have anything Java installed and about:plugins does not show Java either. Is this worth reporting as

Re: [gentoo-user] Constraining X display resolutions

Frank Steinmetzger skrev: Am Mittwoch, 28. April 2010 schrieb Mick: However, Linux GUIs are very good at geometric upscaling, so I suggest increasing font and icon sizes. I'll try that anyway; it may give me a better compromise. Thanks. I've had the same problem on a high

Re: [gentoo-user] New HD monitor stretches everything. How to teach Xorg?

Den 24. aug. 2010 04:27, skrev Kevin O'Gorman: I had to replace an 4:3 Westinghouse monitor this weekend. I got a new ASUS VH242H, which is very wide. But Xorg is still running 1280x1024, instead of the monitor's normal 1920x1080, according to xorg logs because of lack of video memory (using

Re: [gentoo-user] Tcl in your system...

Den 29. nov. 2011 06:03, skrev Michael Mol: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info wrote: Just wondering if anyone here ever use Tcl for scripting (i.e., automating repetitive procedures) or even *gasp* serious programming. Not me, but Tcl is one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

Den 07. des. 2011 01:15, skrev Indi: On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 12:40:01AM +0100, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-12-06, ny6...@gmail.comny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:15:31AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 05:54:22 -0500, LinuxIsOne wrote: But I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

On 12. feb. 2013 02:14, Stroller wrote: On 12 February 2013, at 00:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2013 00:01:00 Dale wrote: This makes me think, if a Government suddenly decided for people to switch which side of the road they are supposed to drive on. This happened in my

[gentoo-user] ebuild for canon ufr ii lt driver . Anyone got it ?

however is different, cndrvcups-ncap-1.00-1.tar.gz inside the above mentioned tar-file. Just running the commands in the README does not work, due to differences in the gentoo directory-structure I guess. -- Håkon Alstadheim / N-7510 Skatval / email: ha...@alstadheim.priv.no tlf: 74 82 60 27 mob: 47

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

On 04. sep. 2014 16:52, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: When booting from EFI you need a GPT boot partition (FAT - ugh) that actually contains the image that gets booted, so it needs to have room for at least a couple of kernels/initramfs - so

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

On 05. sep. 2014 04:44, Daniel Frey wrote: It is possible to boot in EFI mode off of a USB, as I used a Mint ISO to boot from in EFI mode. I would presume the USB needs to have the FAT partition that EFI requires. Dan Sounds good. Having /boot on a stick makes it easy to have whatever I might

[gentoo-user] Picking dom0 OS for new XEN server

Pondering dom0 os for new Xen server (Xeon e5 2620 v3 cpu) . Server is for home use. (routing/firewall; dns/dhcp, mail servers, etc. etc; linux gui desktop; linux media-server; windows as separate domains). I have basic skills in debian, and gentoo. A bit rusty on the rpm-based distros.

Re: [gentoo-user] Picking dom0 OS for new XEN server

On 22. jan. 2015 08:49, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2015-01-22 08:32, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Pondering dom0 os for new Xen server (Xeon e5 2620 v3 cpu) . Server is for home use. (routing/firewall; dns/dhcp, mail servers, etc. etc; linux gui desktop; linux media-server; windows as separate domains

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 38.1.0 :-(

Den 2. aug. 2015 kl. 02.24 skrev Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de: On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 05:31:45PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The 'default' profile selection does not stick. Deleting the new 'dev-edition-default' profile causes it to be recreated afresh at the next start up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flaky USB 3.0

Den 08. sep. 2015 05:32, skrev James: > Håkon Alstadheim alstadheim.priv.no> writes: > > >> In a nutshell: >> My PCIE USB 3.0 card keeps quitting, eg. no light from my laser mouse. > I see no advantage to using usb3 for a mouse. Try to plug into another > usb

Re: [gentoo-user] Flaky USB 3.0 -- typo-fix -- more logs

Den 07. sep. 2015 21:23, skrev Håkon Alstadheim: > Den 07. sep. 2015 20:26, skrev Håkon Alstadheim: >> In a nutshell: >> My PCIE USB 3.0 card keeps quitting, eg. no light from my laser mouse. >> No life in anything I plug in. >> Lately I've had three cold starts (that us

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flaky USB 3.0

> Den 8. sep. 2015 kl. 17.07 skrev James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com>: > > Håkon Alstadheim alstadheim.priv.no> writes: > > >>>> My PCIE USB 3.0 card keeps quitting, eg. no light from my laser mouse. > >>> I see no advantage to using usb3 fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flaky USB 3.0

>>> >>> I need the separate PCIE device so I can pass it through to a virtual > machine. There are no USB 2.x PCIE cards that I know of. >> >> How about this one? >> http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/USB-2/Card/5-Port-USB-20-PCI-Express-Card~PEX400USB2 >> >> Startech model # PEX400USB2

[gentoo-user] Flaky USB 3.0

In a nutshell: My PCIE USB 3.0 card keeps quitting, eg. no light from my laser mouse. No life in anything I plug in. Lately I've had three cold starts (that usually will revive the thing) , but still no go. Will try unplugging for a couple of minutes next time I am able to reboot. General note

Re: [gentoo-user] Flaky USB 3.0 -- typo-fix

Den 07. sep. 2015 20:26, skrev Håkon Alstadheim: > In a nutshell: > My PCIE USB 3.0 card keeps quitting, eg. no light from my laser mouse. > No life in anything I plug in. > Lately I've had three cold starts (that usually will revive the thing) , > but still no go. Will try unpluggi

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest

Den 26. sep. 2015 14:00, skrev J. Roeleveld: > >> Depending on your hardware you will want to use hvm or pvm for >> efficiency. (VT-x means hvm is more efficient). > What do you base this on? > Without VT-x, HVM doesn't even work, which means PV is only option. I stand corrected :/ . I'l refrain

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo as a xen guest

Den 24. sep. 2015 14:53, skrev Rich Freeman: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:05 AM, hw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm installing Gentoo as a xen PV guest. Do I need to install a bootloader >> like grub, or should I rather just specify the kernel to boot in the >> definition file of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

Den 01. jan. 2016 00:49, skrev Linux: > On 12/30/2015 10:32 AM, Roman Dobosz wrote: > > snip > >> Just redirect the standard end error output to the void, like: >> >> --- 8< ~/.config/mc/mc.ext --- >> include/video2 >> Open=(mpv -vf-clr %f >/dev/null 2>&1 &) >> View=%view{ascii}

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

Den 19. des. 2015 01:01, skrev Dale: ... > It sounds like the heads are doing random > reads/writes and the heads are moving but doing so noisily. Thing is, > there is no drive activity according to gkrellm or iotop. All the > drives should be basically idle. ... > Model=ST3000DM001 What kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Midnight Commander and hiding terminal output

Den 03. jan. 2016 16:56, skrev Skippy: > > On 01/02/2016 12:38 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> Den 01. jan. 2016 00:49, skrev Linux: >>> On 12/30/2015 10:32 AM, Roman Dobosz wrote: >>> >>> snip >> Should be as easy as hitting Ctrl-L when your screen

[gentoo-user] Bug-reporting best practice? Xen/Gentoo -- Preparing to log interrupt info sometime after feb. 2016.

Hi all, I'm not a developer but I would like to set up my Xen system to get bug reports as useful as possible. At present I am logging the xen console via serial port, and I am running Xen compiled from gentoo ebuild with "debug" use flag. Is there anything more I need to set up to be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

Den 11. jan. 2016 18:22, skrev Alexander Kapshuk: [...] > Section "Device" > > Identifier "noveau device" > > > Typo here. This should read 'nouveau'. > Thanks for checking, but I believe the Identifier is just for human consumption, i.e. it does not matter. The Driver line has it spelled

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

On 01/12/2016 10:17 PM, lee wrote: Thanks for helping, I' try to answer in-line. Håkon Alstadheim <ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> writes: I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

Just for the record: Tried switcing off gfx_passthru, and over to device-model qemu-xen. This gave me another (virtual) graphics-card on this vm. After adding BusID "00:05:0" to the device section, I'm right back where I started :-( On 01/13/2016 10:19 AM, Håkon Alstadheim wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to be a penguin.

Den 29. mai 2016 03:17, skrev Gregory Woodbury: > > WOW! > > Alan just wants to start it and walk away, as if Gentoo was a binary > distribution > that handles it all upstream. He doesn't want to take the time to > review what > emerge is proposing and see if changes are needed first. > It IS

[gentoo-user] Nouveau blank screen

I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kernel 3.14.*, so I'd like to switch to nouveau. I'm having trouble getting nouveau to work at all, it is giving me a blank screen and apparently not grabbing

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting a valid /etc/adjtime while using ntpd ?

On 03/17/2016 02:03 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 17/03/16 20:26, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/03/2016 08:50, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: I have a server SUPPOSED to be running 24/7, but every once in a while during a prolonged absence the box will go down. The Real Time Clock will drift

[gentoo-user] Getting a valid /etc/adjtime while using ntpd ?

I have a server SUPPOSED to be running 24/7, but every once in a while during a prolonged absence the box will go down. The Real Time Clock will drift, and in the rush to get the box up again I let everything boot up automatically and get both wrong time on the main systems, and different times on

Re: [gentoo-user] [Solved?] Getting a valid /etc/adjtime while using ntpd ?

On 03/17/2016 11:31 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2016 06:01:17 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 18/03/16 05:59, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 18/03/16 05:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/03/2016 22:02, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 03/17/2016 02:03 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 17/03/16 20:26, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting a valid /etc/adjtime while using ntpd ?

On 03/17/2016 10:59 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 18/03/16 05:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/03/2016 22:02, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 03/17/2016 02:03 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 17/03/16 20:26, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/03/2016 08:50, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: I have a server SUPPOSED

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting a valid /etc/adjtime while using ntpd ?

On 03/17/2016 11:31 PM, Mick wrote: On Friday 18 Mar 2016 06:01:17 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 18/03/16 05:59, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 18/03/16 05:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 17/03/2016 22:02, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 03/17/2016 02:03 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: On 17/03/16 20:26, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

Den 02. mars 2016 19:19, skrev »Q«: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:49:59 -0500 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 > I had wget with USE="gnutls" already, so I took the plunge yesterday > and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On 03. mars 2016 12:26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Håkon Alstadheim > <ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> wrote: >> Would "revdep-rebuild.sh -i -L "libssl\.so.*" -- -f" before emerging, be >> sufficient ? I.e. that should obviat

[gentoo-user] gcc5 and xen-tools

directory '/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/xen-tools-4.6.3-r1/work/xen-4.6.3/tools' * ERROR: app-emulation/xen-tools-4.6.3-r1::gentoo failed (compile pha Håkon Alstadheim mob:+47 4735393

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strive for zero swap usage?

Den 08. okt. 2016 21:27, skrev Kai Krakow: > > You may want to try setting your io scheduler to deadline (or even noop > if you are using a RAID controller with bbu and write cache). Since you > seem to prefer response times over throughput you should be using > deadline io scheduler anyways.

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed: Filesize does not match recorded size

Den 08. okt. 2016 11:24, skrev Bill Kenworthy: > On 08/10/16 16:49, Mick wrote: >> On Saturday 08 Oct 2016 11:45:05 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 08/10/16 15:59, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > I've been getting this

[gentoo-user] What is current "worst practice" for maximum bells?

What is a good strategy for setting use-flags to get the most out of a fairly recent graphics card these days? It used to be (for me at least) that I just made sure I had the latest opengl and associated libs, and the latest mesa if my card was supported. These days things get more complicated,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2000 emails - printing, sorting by date

Den 18. aug. 2016 08:39, skrev Stroller: > >> On 17 Aug 2016, at 15:12, Daniel Quinn > > wrote: >> >> I’m a Python guy, so my answer to this would be "use Python" :-) >> >> [The ReportLab >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gummiboot -> efibootmgr

Den 22. aug. 2016 17:05, skrev Peter Humphrey: > Hello list, > > Following today's marking of gummiboot as to be deleted in a month, I had a > look at efibootmgr in the wiki pages. It looks as though I'll be able to use > it instead, but one thing puzzles me: is it possible to create a set of >

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync

Den 24. okt. 2016 17:21, skrev Jorge Almeida: > I want to do emerge --sync on computer A and then update computer B by > copying /usr/portage. Is this safe? The point is: does emerge --sync > just updates the contents of /usr/portage or does it also change > something else ? I have one box that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

Kernel now has two possible kernel modules for a lot of the radeon cards, "radeon" and "amdgpu" . Don't remember the differences, google is your friend. "amdgpu" in 4.9 supports more cards than it used to. Rather prominent in the linux-4.9 announcements. Are you now (automatically? ) loading

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird warning message when emerging gcc

Den 30. des. 2016 14:44, skrev lee: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > >> A world update emerged gcc-5.4.0-r2 (update from 5.4.0). At the end of >> the build, I got this: >> >> * Python seems to be broken, attempting to locate CHOST ourselves ... >> * Switching native-compiler

Re: [gentoo-user] HD 630?

Den 28. mars 2017 00:03, skrev Jorge Almeida: This may be a stupid question, for one of two possible reasons, but here it goes: I'm thinking of buying a recent Intel CPU (7th generation, in saleslang), say an i5-7400, and it came to mind, not too late yet, that the integrated GPU may not be

[gentoo-user] Warnings on shutting down bcache: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 4378 at lib/idr.c:383

I'm getting some noise in my logs when shutting down bcache. My system: Linux gentoo 4.12.7-gentoo #1 SMP Sun Aug 13 22:56:20 CEST 2017 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Running as dom0 under Xen-4.9.0 My shutdown script loops over the bcache devices like so:

[gentoo-user] I have a patch for kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.10.1 where do I send it?

Hi all I'd like to run the latest kde desktop , but stuff keeps crashing. Regular X just drops me right back at login, wayland lets me log in but has some issues. Among other things I am unable tune my keyboard settings. SIGSEGV on XInternAtom in kcms/keyboard/x11_helper.cpp . I found a report

Re: [gentoo-user] I have a patch for kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.10.1 where do I send it?

Den 08. juni 2017 22:46, skrev Dale: > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> Hi all I'd like to run the latest kde desktop , but stuff keeps >> crashing. Regular X just drops me right back at login, wayland lets me >> log in but has some issues. >> >> Among other th

[gentoo-user] xen-tools-4.8.1.ebuild pulling in old ovmf.bin

I have a problem where xen hvm guests using ovmf (efi) as "bios" will not read efi variables stored in /NvVars. I believe that may be a known bug in old versions of tianocore. Building xen-tools-4.8.1 now, and I notice that the ebuild still has OVMF_PV=20151110 . Tried building a newer one myself

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Console serial terminal/console with command history?

Den 22. mai 2018 20:28, skrev Ian Zimmerman: > On 2018-05-22 12:00, Grant Taylor wrote: > >> You might also want to check out using vim or emacs as they have >> terminal emulators built in. They might be able to apply some command >> line history / editing (in a round about way). > Indeed, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

Den 02. juli 2018 11:34, skrev Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov: >> kill -s SIGSTOP >> kill -s SIGCONT > Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/ > > > It will allow the process to be swapped out without provoking thrashing. Should work, plugins might give you some grief though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is sys-firmware/intel-microcode-20180108 complete?

I've got this in my boot directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 67584 Jan 10 15:12 /boot/microcode.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33792 Jan 7 23:56 /boot/microcode.bin.prev These are the split ucode file for my cpu, specifically a copy of /lib/firmware/intel-ucode/06-3f-02. I'm running xen, an xl

[gentoo-user] [OT] AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:03.0

(Sorry for the OT, don't know where to go for generic hardware questions) I'm wondering if my main board dying? On sept. 1 I started getting error messages like the ones at the  end of this mail. I just noticed them. I am including logs from as far back as I have, just for completeness. This

[gentoo-user] portage sandbox path-depth limit ?

I'm having fun enabling "test" in FEATURES on my gentoo-desktop. One interesting failure, that brings to mind build failures I have had in the past: Building sys-apps/mlocate-0.26-r2, I get 43: updatedb: Very deep hierarchy   FAILED (updatedb.at:261) Trying to reproduce, as

Re: [gentoo-user] portage sandbox path-depth limit ?

Den 30. okt. 2018 10:01, skrev Mick: > On Tuesday, 30 October 2018 06:30:23 GMT Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> I'm having fun enabling "test" in FEATURES on my gentoo-desktop. One >> interesting failure, that brings to mind build failures I have had in >> the past:

Re: [gentoo-user] Per-process-tree memory quotas?

Den 20. okt. 2018 11:08, skrev Mick: > On Saturday, 20 October 2018 05:13:13 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: >>> On 2018-10-19, at 23:24, Alan Grimes wrote: >>> >>> How do I do this? >> Cgroups were sort of invented for this reason. Yes it requires Systemd. > No, I don't think systemd is obligatory,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:03.0

Den 28. sep. 2018 00:02, skrev Mick: > On Thursday, 27 September 2018 21:51:42 BST Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> (Sorry for the OT, don't know where to go for generic hardware questions) >> >> I'm wondering if my main board dying? On sept. 1 I started getting error >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fw: updating /etc/package.accept_keywords

Den 29.05.2019 23:58, skrev n952...@web.de: And, what are the consequences that I'm suffering, that I haven't done that before, for over a year? Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2019 um 23:55 Uhr Von: n952...@web.de An: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Betreff: updating /etc/package.accept_keywords I

Re: [gentoo-user] Keeping 17-year-old Kylix software alive

Den 09.06.2019 11:24, skrev Matthias Hanft: The old Kylix libraries just do some comprehensive calculations. Not too difficult to manually translate that into PHP (or any other script language, or even plain C), but just hundreds of code lines to type... Find a Pascal-to-C++ translator

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Den 01.10.2019 13:28, skrev Dr Rainer Woitok: Greetings, having freshly erm ... converted from Ubuntu to Gentoo and thus being an absolute Gentoo newbie I'm desparately looking for a way to get rid of all the colour in the output produced by "emerge" but also by "qlist", "eix", "e-file"

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

Den 02.10.2019 11:01, skrev Dr Rainer Woitok: Hakon, On Tuesday, 2019-10-01 16:07:55 +0200, you wrote: ... I've got this in make.conf, which gets me part-way there: CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE=OFF NOCOLOR="true" GCC_COLORS="" I already had the "NOCOLOR" environment variable set (there was a

Re: [gentoo-user] power button to shutdown for openrc? [SOLVED]

Den 17.11.2019 12:22, skrev Dale: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:50:08 +, Mick wrote: Magic SysReq would probably have helped in those situations. ext3/4 only journal metadata by default, you can specify a mount option to also journal data but it impacts performance. When

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

Den 23.09.2023 15:42, skrev Dale: Wols Lists wrote: On 19/09/2023 10:13, Dale wrote: That's a interesting way to come up with passwords tho.  I've seen that is a few whodunit type shows.  Way back in the old days, they had some interesting ways of coding messages.  Passwords are sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to move ext4 partition

Den 22.09.2023 08:48, skrev Wols Lists: On 20/09/2023 23:39, Grant Edwards wrote: Assuming GParted is smart enough to do overlapping moves, is it smart enough to only copy filesystem data and not copy "empty" sectors? According to various forum posts, it is not: moving a partion copies every

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: Hello, For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my current working kernel) to 6.1.53-gentoo-r1. No kernel I have built since is able to boot. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

Den 01.10.2023 06:56, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: On 9/30/23 17:25, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: Hello, For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo (which is my

Re: [gentoo-user] 6.1.53-gentoo-r1 kernel not booting

Den 01.10.2023 21:31, skrev Frank Steinmetzger: Am Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:25:46PM +0200 schrieb Håkon Alstadheim: Den 30.09.2023 22:57, skrev Valmor F. de Almeida: Hello, For a while now (3 weeks or so) I have been upgrading the linux kernel on a Dell XPS laptop starting from 6.1.41-gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Pipewire not a dependency?

Den 02.10.2022 11:47, skrev Michael: On Saturday, 1 October 2022 19:32:11 BST Daniel Sonck wrote: On zaterdag 1 oktober 2022 19:11:19 CEST Wol wrote: On 01/10/2022 17:56, Michael wrote: Anyway, I ventured into pipewire because I wanted to see if Skype would work without pulseaudio and in

[gentoo-user] Downgrading zfs-kmod 9999 -> 2.1.12 -- Heads up

Heads up for anyone trying this. Filesystem layout for kernel modules has changed, I ended up with left-over modules from when downgrading, needs manual clean-up. Would maybe be a good idea to update the ebuilds for the non-git ebuilds to either the new layout or to clean up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] Current unavoidable use of xz utils in Gentoo

Den 31.03.2024 14:33, skrev Rich Freeman: (moving this to gentoo-user as this is really getting off-topic for -dev) It might also happen with commercial software, but the challenge there is HR as you can't just pay 1 person to masquerade as 10 when they all need to deal with payroll taxes.