[gentoo-user] Re: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

2013-08-05 Thread Kai Krakow
Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com schrieb: 3. The handbook suggests that I should add this line to /etc/env.d/02locale: 'LC_COLLATE=C', but I do not know if they are again talking about the language DE. RESOLUTION: I assumed LC_COLLATE=C refers to english and added the line without

[gentoo-user] Re: Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-06-08 Thread Kai Krakow
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org schrieb: So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD

[gentoo-user] Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-20 Thread Kai Krakow
microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org schrieb: rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree, that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror. I have a 2year old SSDs that have reported Write Amplification Factor of 26. I think the only reason is that I

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org schrieb: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I found that fstrim can't work on f2fs file systems. I don't know whether discard works yet. Fstrim is to be preferred over discard in general. However, I suspect neither

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk schrieb: On Friday 20 June 2014 19:48:14 Kai Krakow wrote: microcai micro...@fedoraproject.org schrieb: rsync is doing bunch of 4k ramdon IO when updateing portage tree, that will kill SSDs with much higher Write Amplification Factror. I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org schrieb: On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com wrote: And while we are at it, I'd also like to mention bcache. Tho, conversion is not straight forward. However, I'm going to try that soon for my spinning rust btrfs. I contemplated

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: [Gentoo-User] emerge --sync likely to kill SSD?

2014-06-24 Thread Kai Krakow
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org schrieb: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 7:44 AM, Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com wrote: I don't see where you could lose the volume management features. You just add device on top of the bcache device after you initialized the raw device with a bcache superblock

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of the random data. If the result is 62 or 63 you will discard the data and get the next 6 bits. This

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-26 Thread Kai Krakow
Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com schrieb: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of the random data. If the result is 62 or 63 you will discard

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread Kai Krakow
thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net schrieb: On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random characters in sequence. sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/ :-) I'm no mathematician

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com wrote: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-29 Thread Kai Krakow
Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: On Jun 29, 2014, at 0:28, Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com wrote: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com wrote: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: If you are looking

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 22:37:38 + schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > On Monday 21 Dec 2015 21:43:00 Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:25:34 -0500 > > > > schrieb waltd...@waltdnes.org: > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 02:06:25PM +, Ja

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:20:24 + schrieb Mick : > On Monday 21 Dec 2015 22:38:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 22/12/2015 00:37, Mick wrote: > > > > Am I alone in experiencing this? Any ideas for fixing it? > > > Should I post a bug and if so where? I'm thinking that

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:41:08 + schrieb Mick : > * Skipping module netplugd due to missing program: /sbin/netplugd Could it be that sys-apps/netplug is what you want to use now instead of ifplugd? Did you try it? I think I remember that ifplugd simply did no

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:59:39 -0600 schrieb »Q« : > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 21:40:30 + > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:25:34 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > > > > From what I read/understand openrc is in the process of removal >

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:54:35 + schrieb Mick : > On Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 00:48:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:55:06 +, Mick wrote: > > > > Are you trying to run ifplugd from its init script? It's not > > > > meant to be used like that with

[gentoo-user] Re: Manually removing packages from world problem

2015-12-25 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 24 Dec 2015 20:22:45 -0200 schrieb João Matos : > Dear list, > > I was having problem with plasma, so I decided to change it. > > I've removed all packages related from world, changed the profile, > erased use-related files from /etc/portage. > > Then I've used

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:50:24 + schrieb Mick : > > You could try running the service in debug mode (--debug), and look > > at the line starting ifplugd. Check if the parameters look correct, > > then try to fire the same command from command line and check the > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with openrc-0.18.4 and ifplugd

2015-12-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 22 Dec 2015 14:04:12 + schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > On Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 01:12:10 Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:54:35 + > > > > schrieb Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com>: > > > On Tuesday 22 Dec 2015 00:48:

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-23 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:48:57 +0100 schrieb lee <l...@yagibdah.de>: > Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 > > schrieb lee <l...@yagibdah.de>: > > > >> Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-23 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:24:56 +0100 schrieb lee : > > It uses some very clever ideas to place files into groups and into > > proper order - other than using file mod and access times like other > > defrag tools do (which even make the problem worse by doing so > > because this

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:39:26 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2016-01-19, Mick wrote: > > > As far as I understand it RDP is different to VNC, in the sense that > > instead of sending every pixel down the line it only sends > >

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:46:29 +0100 schrieb lee : > >> Overcommitting disk space sounds like a very bad idea. > >> Overcommitting memory is not possible with xen. > > > > Overcommitting diskspace isn't such a bad idea, considering most > > installs never utilize all the

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:12:33 +0100 schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > > > Overcommitting memory is, i think, on the roadmap for Xen. > > > (Disclaimer: At least, I seem to remember reading that > > > somewhere) > > > > That would be a nice feature. > > For VDIs, I might consider

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 20 Jan 2016 01:46:29 +0100 schrieb lee : > The time before, it wasn't > a VM but a very slow machine, and that also took a week. You can have > the fastest machine on the world and Windoze always manages to bring > it down to a slowness we wouldn't have accepted even 20

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 22 Jan 2016 00:52:30 +0100 schrieb lee : > Is WSUS of any use without domains? If it is, I should take a look at > it. You can use it with and without domains. What domains give you through GPO is just automatic deployment of the needed registry settings in the client.

[gentoo-user] Re: Filesystem choice for NVMe SSD

2016-01-27 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:02:47 +0300 schrieb Andrew Savchenko : > I have thoughts about caching NFS using filescached, but limited > durability of the drive (400 TBW warranty for 512 GB size) restrains > me here. Probably I'll use it for caching only in exceptional cases > (e.g.

[gentoo-user] Re: useflag hell.

2016-03-02 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:01:48 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 28/02/2016 20:14, Alan Grimes wrote: > > I've been running number theory code for a few weeks, so haven't > > been updating my machine too often... > > > > I for the last day or so I'm in a run my

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-03-06 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 05 Mar 2016 00:52:09 +0100 schrieb lee : > >> > It uses some very clever ideas to place files into groups and > >> > into proper order - other than using file mod and access times > >> > like other defrag tools do (which even make the problem worse by > >> > doing so

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:17:11 + schrieb Mick : > On Sunday 19 Feb 2017 10:50:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:45:27 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > [...] > > > > > > According to the portage manpage 'x11-wm/enlightenment-' > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 13:53:49 +0100 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when I > start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a lot > of open tabs. > > In that case my system nearly freezes. I

[gentoo-user] Re: Collision between app-arch/lrzip and net-dialup/lrzsz

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 15:53:46 +0100 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > Both packages install the files: > > * Detected file collision(s): > * > */usr/bin/lrz > */usr/share/man/man1/lrz.1.bz2 > * > > I IxQuicked for that but didn't find anything useful. > Is there a gentle way

[gentoo-user] Re: How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:41:20 +0100 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Helmut Jarausch [17-02-19 14:04]: > > Hi, > > > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when > > I start (e.g.) Chromium which needs very much memory if you have a > > lot of open tabs.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to keep my system from (nearly) freezing?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:11:29 +0100 schrieb Miroslav Rovis : > On 170219-13:53+0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sometime I have some memory hungry ebuilds in the background, when > > I > Ebuilds are just text files, they don't run in the background...

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 18 Feb 2017 22:05:01 -0500 schrieb "Walter Dnes" : > On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote > > > Any advice about slick ways of getting fully updated but dumping kde > > on the way. > > *IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies.

[gentoo-user] Re: puzzling behavior of USE flags with sys-apps/man-db

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:29:20 -0500 schrieb Harry Putnam : > Adding the X useflag to xll-libs/gtk+ > > # cat /etc/portage/package.use/gtk+ > xll-libs/gtk+ X > > But emerge appears not to go by its own stipulation Maybe because it should be "x11" and not "xll"? --

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided?

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:40:37 + schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 23:00:03 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger wrote: > > > I find the package.*-dirs very nice, too. Unfortunately, the tools > > like emerge, flaggie etc. seem to not always use the same file to > >

[gentoo-user] Re: package.provided syntax for overlay

2017-02-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:20:41 + schrieb Mick : > Hi All, > > Given sddm is not working for my setup, as per bug #608690, I thought > of trying entrance from the bar overlay. It wants to pull in > enlightenment, which I have already installed from the main tree and

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] How to force a rebuild?

2017-02-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:36:42 +0100 schrieb Bertram Scharpf : > On Wednesday, 15. Feb 2017, 19:27:26 +0100, Johannes Rosenberger > wrote: > > On 15.02.2017 19:10, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > > > I did not find this by Google. Maybe I asked the wrong > > > terms. > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: dev-lang/php-5.6

2017-02-27 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 27 Feb 2017 21:00:40 -0700 schrieb the...@sys-concept.com: > On 02/27/2017 02:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 27/02/2017 22:14, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> When will they drop the dev-lang/php-5.6.30 from the portage? > > > > If you copy the ebuild into your local overlay,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] -print0 but with 'locate'

2016-09-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 3 Sep 2016 11:52:46 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > I want to 'locate' a bunch of files and feed the output into > '| xargs md5sum'. > Unfortunately some of them are infected with the "file name"-virus > (space in the filename). > With find there is the -print0 option which

[gentoo-user] Re: Shutter alternatives

2016-09-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 27 Aug 2016 06:14:15 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Hi, > > besider shutterbug -- what alternatives are available for > the program "shutter"? If you are a KDE user you might want to try spectacle. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:56:06 +0300 schrieb gevisz : > > Backups are annoying. > > Yes. :) No, try borgbackup with a cronjob. > > I don't do them as well as ideally I should > > Who does? :) I do. > Well, probably, one who just lost a lot of data because of not doing >

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:51:19 -0700 schrieb Grant : > > # mount -o loop,ro -t ntfs usb.img /mnt/usbstick > > NTFS signature is missing. > > Failed to mount '/dev/loop0': Invalid argument > > The device '/dev/loop0' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS. > > Maybe the wrong device

[gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:47:22 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:34:55 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > Surprise surprise, 4.7 has this (still not fully fixed) oom-killer > > bug. When I'm running virtual machines, it still kicks

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:04:53 +0300 schrieb gevisz : > I have bought an external 5TB Western Digital hard drive > that I am going to use mainly for backing up some files > in my home directory and carrying a very big files, for > example a virtual machine image file, from one

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:09:09 +0300 schrieb gevisz : > 2016-09-01 11:54 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : > > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:49:43 +0300, gevisz wrote: > > > [...] > >> > >> That is exactly what I am afraid of! > >> > >> So, the 20-years old rule of thumb

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 09:03:17 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 10:18:29 +0300, gevisz wrote: > > > > it will take about 5 seconds to partition it. > > > And a few more to mkfs it. > > > > Just to partition - may be, but I very much doubt > > that it will

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 22:27:46 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann : > Am 30.08.2016 um 21:14 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > > On August 30, 2016 8:58:17 PM GMT+02:00, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > >> Am 30.08.2016 um 20:12 schrieb Alan

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:59:02 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > wrote: > > > > the journal does not add any data integrity benefits at all. It just > > makes it more likely that the fs is in a sane

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 08:38:26 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 06:46:54 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > So I'm done with NTFS forever. Will ext2 somehow allow me to use > > > the USB stick across Gentoo systems without permission/ownership > > > problems? > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 21 Aug 2016 05:55:06 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > > > After this morning's sync, both versions 4.4.6 and 4.6.4 of > > gentoo-sources have disappeared. Is this just finger trouble in

[gentoo-user] Re: guvcview update produces an executable with missing lib...

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2016 12:05:51 -0700 schrieb Daniel Frey : > On 08/29/2016 11:11 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:29:50PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de > > wrote > >> Hi, > >> > >> after updateing my system, beside others guvcview was updated: > >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:02:17 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 23:50:17 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > That's not true. Whoever owns the files and directories will be > > > able to access then,

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 18 Aug 2016 14:47:07 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:38:03 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > This is almost certainly a bug in btrfs-progs, or maybe the btrfs > > filesystem driver in the kernel. > > The latter, a later kernel appears to have

[gentoo-user] Re: USB crucial file recovery

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 31 Aug 2016 02:32:24 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 31/08/2016 02:08, Grant wrote: > [...] > [...] > >> > >> You can't control ownership and permissions of existing files with > >> mount options on a Linux filesystem. See man mount. > > > > > > So in

[gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2016 22:56:31 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > > - so my next upgrade would "force" me into deciding going way down > > (probably a bad idea) or up into unknown territory (and this showed: > > can also be a problem). Or I can stay with 4.6 until depclean > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 2 Sep 2016 01:53:31 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 01/09/2016 10:49, gevisz wrote: > > 2016-09-01 10:30 GMT+03:00 Matthias Hanft : > >> gevisz wrote: > [...] > >> > >> If your filesystem becomes corrupt (and you are unable to > >> repair

[gentoo-user] Re: guvcview update produces an executable with missing lib...

2016-09-01 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 30 Aug 2016 03:55:32 +0200 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > Daniel Frey [16-08-30 03:48]: > > On 08/29/2016 11:11 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 06:29:50PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de > > > wrote > [...] > [...] > [...] > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?

2016-09-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 2 Sep 2016 17:42:13 -0500 schrieb Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > Mick wrote: > > On Thursday 01 Sep 2016 22:57:12 Kai Krakow wrote: > > > >> Regarding performance: > >> > >> I wish Linux had options to relocate files (not just defragment)

[gentoo-user] Re: What's happened to gentoo-sources?

2016-08-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 21 Aug 2016 07:28:17 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Sunday 21 Aug 2016 05:55:06 Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 5:12 AM, Peter Humphrey > >>

[gentoo-user] Re: using KDE

2016-09-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:22:11 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>: > 160928 Kai Krakow wrote: > > 160928 schrieb Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>: > >> I've discovered that KDE isn't recognising the numeric pad keys : > >> they simply have

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

2016-10-08 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 8 Oct 2016 05:09:46 -0700 schrieb Grant : > >> "Swapping excessively" is inherently a use-case-specific problem, > >> but it comes down to two questions: > >> > >> * Do you notice your system spending time in iowait swapping data > >> in while you're waiting on it? >

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

2016-10-09 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 9 Oct 2016 06:25:20 -0700 schrieb Grant : > > Looking at the times, it looks a lot like you are having higher > > iowait only at around 2:00 and 4:20 which are pretty standard cron > > job times. These probably run niced or ioniced. It's normal that > > you are

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:43:39 -0700 schrieb Grant : > >> Maybe run a ping to a destination which you are having problems > >> with, then reproduce the problem (with the network idle > >> otherwise). You should see ping packets dropped only then. > >> > >> You can also ping

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 07:30:40 -0700 schrieb Grant : > [...] > [...] > >> > >> > >> I just remembered that our AT modem/router does not respond to > >> pings. My solution is to move PPPoE off of that device and onto my > >> Gentoo router so that pings pass through the

[gentoo-user] Re: Alt+Fn switch console from within X11 session

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 10:08:31 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>: > On Wednesday 21 Sep 2016 06:08:38 Kai Krakow wrote: > > > I upgraded xorg to 1.18 and during that process also enabled > > USE=wayland. However, I don't run a wayland session (this a

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:29:13 +0200 schrieb Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com>: > Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 07:30:40 -0700 > schrieb Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>: > > > [...] > > [...] > [...] > > > > > > If that device behaves badly

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 22:06:37 +0200 schrieb Kai Krakow <hurikha...@gmail.com>: > Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:37:51 -0700 > schrieb Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>: > > > [...] > > [...] > [...] > > > > > > You may want to set the default co

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:37:51 -0700 schrieb Grant : > [...] > [...] > >> > >> > >> Hi Kai, yesterday I switched my Gentoo router over to handling > >> PPPoE and pings seem to be working properly now. The AT device > >> is now functioning as a modem only and passing

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:32:48 -0700 schrieb Grant : > [...] > [...] > >> > >> > >> I'm seeing the issue again as usual but ping response times come > >> back normal at about 50ms. I'll keep trying. > > > > Not sure if this came after or before switching your router

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-21 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:53:17 -0700 schrieb Grant : > [...] > [...] > >> > >> You may want to set the default congestion control to fq-codel > >> (it's in the kernel) if you're using DSL links. This may help your > >> problem a little bit. It is most effective if you

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict

2016-09-18 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb : > Starting my regular Sat system update, 'eix-sync' told me > (equivalent) : > > root:524 ~> eix ^perl$ > [U] dev-lang/perl > Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20) > ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22)

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict

2016-09-18 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb : > Starting my regular Sat system update, 'eix-sync' told me > (equivalent) : > > root:524 ~> eix ^perl$ > [U] dev-lang/perl > Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20) > ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22)

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:17:36 +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick : > On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 13:01:39 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > > > I'm surprised you needed to jump through such hoops. > > > I updated 2 stable systems to perl 5.22 last week > > > and emerge @world took care of all

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:56:59 -0700 schrieb Grant : > A while back I was having networking issues. I eventually tried > drastically lowering the MTU of all the systems onsite and the issues > disappeared. I always thought the issue was due to the MTU on our > modem/router.

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma upgrade: Part Deux.

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:05:19 -0700 schrieb Daniel Frey : > So, I have a week off and have time to mess around trying to upgrade > to Plasma once again. > > I have got it mostly-somewhat upgraded, but I have two bizarre > problems. > > The first one is I have two volume

[gentoo-user] Re: Madly flickering display

2016-09-23 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:11:33 +0100 schrieb Mick : > On Friday 23 Sep 2016 10:36:23 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Friday, September 23, 2016 09:13:00 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I've broken this out from the thread it appeared in, Problems with > > > Xinerama > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:47:28 -0700 schrieb Grant : > >> I haven't mentioned it yet, but several times I've seen the website > >> perform fine all day until I browse to it myself and then all of a > >> sudden it's super slow for me and my third-party monitor. WTF??? > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} ISP requires MTU below 1500?

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:42:01 -0700 schrieb Grant : > >> A while back I was having networking issues. I eventually tried > >> drastically lowering the MTU of all the systems onsite and the > >> issues disappeared. I always thought the issue was due to the MTU > >> on our

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma upgrade: Part Deux.

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 20 Sep 2016 08:13:49 -0700 schrieb Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com>: > On 09/19/2016 11:36 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Am Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:05:19 -0700 > > schrieb Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com>: > > > >> So, I have a week off and have

[gentoo-user] Re: TCP Queuing problem

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 20 Sep 2016 06:08:31 -0700 schrieb Grant : > [...] > [...] > >> > >> > >> It looks like the TCP Queuing spike itself was due to imapproxy > >> which I've now disabled. I'll post more info as I gather it. > > > > > > imapproxy was clearly affecting the TCP

[gentoo-user] Alt+Fn switch console from within X11 session

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Hello! I upgraded xorg to 1.18 and during that process also enabled USE=wayland. However, I don't run a wayland session (this actually doesn't seem to work with nvidia). I use sddm as the login manager, and I'm running latest plasma 5.7. The system is booted with systemd. I just came accross the

[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma upgrade: Part Deux.

2016-09-20 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:03:23 -0700 schrieb Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com>: > On 09/20/2016 08:26 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > >> > >> I've noticed a couple more things. One is after resume from standby > >> the plasma taskbar hangs at 100% cpu for 2-3 minutes, d

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge interferes with Git (Was: Wlan disappeared after suspend)

2016-09-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 13 Sep 2016 19:49:04 +0200 schrieb Bertram Scharpf : > On Tuesday, 13. Sep 2016, 11:12:11 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Bertram Scharpf > > wrote: > > > > > > The rfkill install interferes with Git! >

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge interferes with Git (Was: Wlan disappeared after suspend)

2016-09-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:36:28 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org>: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Bertram Scharpf > <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 17. Sep 2016, 10:31:17 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: > > > Am Tue, 13 Sep 20

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems with Xinerama after upgrade to Plasma (KDE5)

2016-09-17 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 15 Sep 2016 20:36:20 +0200 schrieb Dan Johansson : > After upgrading to Plasma (KDE5) I have a problem with my dual monitor > setup. > > When I start/restart a new session both monitors are "displayed" "on > top" of each other (see Screenshot_20160915_201441.png).

[gentoo-user] Re: Alt+Fn switch console from within X11 session

2016-09-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 22 Sep 2016 16:27:25 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey : > On Thursday 22 Sep 2016 16:05:02 I wrote: > > I'm glad you mentioned Xorg.0.log; it prompted me to look at mine, > > and I found I didn't have an fbdev driver. I found I needed to add > > USE=evdev to

[gentoo-user] Re: using KDE

2016-09-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:22:11 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>: > 160928 Kai Krakow wrote: > > 160928 schrieb Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>: > >> I've discovered that KDE isn't recognising the numeric pad keys : > >> they simply have

[gentoo-user] Re: using KDE

2016-09-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 28 Sep 2016 03:30:20 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb : > 160927 Philip Webb wrote: > > I've been trying out KDE 5 for the past week & generally it's > > usable. > > One nasty little problem erupted when I accidently stuck a note > to the background on all desktops :

[gentoo-user] Re: using KDE

2016-09-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:36:47 -0400 schrieb Philip Webb : > 160921 Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > On 21 September 2016 at 06:46, Philip Webb > > wrote: > >> I've been a happy user of Fluxbox for many years, > >> but am willing to see how well KDE 5 works in

[gentoo-user] Re: Dependency conflict

2016-09-30 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:32:18 +0300 schrieb Dmitry Bogun : > Hi. > > Perl packages family use extremely annoying dependency definition. > > See example below. > > The question is "what is the correct way to solve this dependency > conflict?". I don't like to add all "conflicts"

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox 45.2.0 segfaulting

2016-09-25 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:55:02 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > www-client/firefox got updated this morning to 45.2.0, and now it > segfaults whenever you enter a character in the search field or the > URL field. > > Anybody else see this sort of behavior? Did you

[gentoo-user] Re: docker and CONFIG_IPVLAN

2016-10-27 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:08:05 -0500 schrieb Andrés Becerra Sandoval : > Hello, > > I am getting this warning when updating app-emulation/docker: > > CONFIG_IPVLAN: is not set when it should be. > > But in the linux kernel configuration I cannot find IPVLAN at:

[gentoo-user] Re: konqueror being used when I want dolphin

2016-10-22 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:23:33 -0500 schrieb »Q« : > When I use amarok to open a file manager, konqueror is called instead > of dolphin. In KDE5's System Settings, dolphin is set as the default > file manager, as it was once upon a time in KDE4's System Settings. > > I expect

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome intrusion?

2016-11-14 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:49:42 + schrieb Jorge Almeida : > I don't know what a11y is... accessibility +-+ = 11 chars, a+11+y ;-) It's like i18n, l10n... Developers love those it seems... -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome intrusion?

2016-11-14 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:38:44 + schrieb Andrew Tselischev : > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 09:32:59AM +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > I noticed some obnoxious-looking processes in my system: > > > > $ ps axf > > (...) > > 367 ?S 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch

[gentoo-user] Re: UDEV rule problem

2016-11-14 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:31:58 +0100 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > I have two external USB3 hard disk enclosures. They have the same > vendor, model and the same serial number (unfortunately). > Vendor, model and serial occur in the usb-subsystem only. > > Since the

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome intrusion?

2016-11-14 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:32:59 + schrieb Jorge Almeida : > I noticed some obnoxious-looking processes in my system: > > $ ps axf > (...) > 367 ?S 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch > 899f609d1c39e4d202c179a7580e4b49 --binary-syntax --close-stderr > 368 ?

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