Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Since Gentoo's rpcbind.service has Wants=rpcbind.target and Before=rpcbind.target, having nfs-server.service depend on rpcbind.target rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:11 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: Thing is, I don't see any benefit, for myself, in systemd. If people want to use it, fine. But, if people are trying to force it upon everyone, then I will have a problem with it. It cuts both ways. Let's assume that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-31 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Is After really necessary as an option? I've never come across a service that uses After without a Requires or a Wants but I've never taken the time to look

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-28 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:18 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/27/2014 08:22 PM, Tom H wrote: The 1.2.9 nfs-utils ebuild has systemd_dounit ${FILESDIR}/nfsd.service where nfsd.service has Requires=rpcbind.service and After=rpcbind.service. The 1.3.0 nfs-utils ebuild has systemd_dounit

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:38 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Last night when I powered off my machines NFS was working perfectly. Today it's broken again for the nth time: #systemctl status nfs-server ● nfs-server.service - NFS server and services Loaded: loaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/27/2014 12:56 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:38 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Last night when I powered off my machines NFS was working perfectly. Today it's broken again for the nth time:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] NFS server broken again :(

2014-10-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: Does rpcbind.target exist? Does rpcbind.service have a Requires or Wants for rpcbind.target? Is rpcbind.service enabled? ... I don't have access to a Gentoo box with nfs at the moment in order to check this but IIRC Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: ZoL (ZFS on Linux) nowadays is implemented using DKMS instead of FUSE, thus running in kernelspace, and (relatively) easier to put into an initramfs. Updating is a beeyotch on binary-based distros as it requires a

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 27.10.2014 um 16:36 schrieb Rich Freeman: and a boot partition as I don't think grub supports it - it could be a bit of a PITA for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs

2014-10-16 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: CentOS 7.0, however, was a mess. It took three attempts and almost an entire day of work. My first attempt was to use the minimal ISO image so that I would have the option of burning a CD if needed (I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?

2014-10-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:53 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/15/2014 08:23 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched my home LAN from wired to all wifi and I'm having trouble with NetworkManager at boot time. I have systemd start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New wireless adapter breaks nfs exports

2014-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/2014 08:31 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This machine (my nfsv3 file server) just got a new wireless adapter, which works fine for everything except serving files

Re: [gentoo-user] [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?

2014-10-15 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:39 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched my home LAN from wired to all wifi and I'm having trouble with NetworkManager at boot time. I have systemd start NetworkManager at boot because I need the internet for ntpdate and to start the nfs server for the

Re: [gentoo-user] New wireless adapter breaks nfs exports

2014-10-05 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 2:52 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: This machine (my nfsv3 file server) just got a new wireless adapter, which works fine for everything except serving files :( mount.nfs: requested NFS version or transport protocol is not supported google shows me lots about slow

Re: [gentoo-user] root on newest livedvd ?

2014-09-30 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:09 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: livedvd-amd64-multilib-20140826.iso The old livedvd, to get root access it was sudo su - which does not see to work. Ideas on the new syntax to get root access. How about sudo -i or sudo -s?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: Point is he's trying to paint the picture that systemd folks rattle on and on about its speed, but they don't. The speed argument/anti-argument can be traced back to Lennart's first blog post on systemd (IIRC

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread Tom H
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 that will be larger. If you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Execute udev rule before net.* scripts

2014-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: SUBSYSTEM==net, KERNEL==enp3s0u1, NAME=net0 enp3s0u1 isn't a kernel name; it's an ID_NET_NAME_PATH attribute. That's what came to my mind too, that's why I instructed him away from it. Yeah, I saw your email after I sent

Re: [gentoo-user] Execute udev rule before net.* scripts

2014-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 24/08/14 20:05, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: SUBSYSTEM==net, KERNEL==enp3s0u1, NAME=net0 enp3s0u1 isn't a kernel name; it's an ID_NET_NAME_PATH attribute

Re: [gentoo-user] Execute udev rule before net.* scripts

2014-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to define names for my USB network interfaces keyed on the interface location instead of the interface MAC address. This udev rule renames one of them: SUBSYSTEM==net, KERNEL==enp3s0u1, NAME=net0 But it doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS tutorial for the brain dead sysadmin?

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: NFS uses RPC to do some heavy lifting - I don't know how familiar you are with this, so here's the quick version: When you mount something locally, and need to use the mounted filesystem, kernel calls are used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- provisioning. Once I'd added

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled?

2014-06-15 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/14/2014 2:15 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/14/2014 1:02 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10

Re: [gentoo-user] udev upgrade 208 212-r1, openrc USE flag changed to disabled?

2014-06-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 6/14/2014 1:02 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: *Why* was it removed/no longer needed? And why was it needed previously? Read

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern systemd/gnome3-environment? # glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for # POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink). # (tmpfs is a

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab cleanup

2014-05-21 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 21.05.2014 15:31, schrieb Tom H: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Do I still need these lines .. especially with a modern systemd/gnome3-environment? # glibc 2.2

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: OK, I was a little mystified about why dracut-036 worked on my system and 037 didn't. Before I tried any workaround, I wanted to know what changed from the previous version to the current one. So I generated an

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:48 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Sunday, May 04, 2014 01:15:51 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 03 May 2014 20:40:47 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: * SystemRescueCD and the Gentoo minimal installation CD both start any raid arrays they find and apply their

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Box boots now with kernel 3.14.1 and with commented LVs in fstab. When I login and check there are no mdadm-raids assembled. When I mdadm -A --scan they get correctly assembled: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities :

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 09:38:44AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote On Monday 21 Apr 2014 00:55:56 yac wrote: On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 13:54:07 +0100 Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: The installation handbook used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 10:24:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote I symlink /proc/self/mounts to /etc/mtab. But the handbook has grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts /etc/mtab. I re-checked the AMD64 install docs in Firefox {CTRL}F mtab

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 7:43 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my fault. Can people here do me a favour? If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] Output of mount and cat /etc/mtab inside install chroot?

2014-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2014 07:43:18 Walter Dnes wrote: I've got another thread going called... Strange behaviour with LILO on new install on old laptop. Before I file a bug report, I want to check first whether it's my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org wrote: On 04/12/2014 08:19 AM, Tom H wrote: You can have a gpt partition table with BIOS but if you want to boot from that disk, you need a bios_boot partition (which the OP has) for grub to embed a binary. Technically, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Facu Curti facu.cu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. First at all i apologize if my english is not enough. When I installed gentoo, I do that with UEFI, and gpt partitions. But right now, I tried to install XEN, and this not works with EFI. I cant wait until

Re: [gentoo-user] Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 12.04.2014 12:45, schrieb Facu Curti: Partition Table: gpt : This You can have a gpt partition table with BIOS but if you want to boot from that disk, you need a bios_boot partition (which the OP has)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 06.04.2014 15:02, schrieb Tom H: So the openrc-example might be simplified? ok with me ... does anyone confirm? It depends how you set up your network on the qemu command line. If you use qemu -netdev tap,id=hn0

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-06 Thread Tom H
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: Am 31.03.2014 14:17, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: On 31-Mar-2014 5:45 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at wrote: Aside from all the discussions around systemd, I simply gave the new systemd-networkd a try. It helped me to simplify my

Re: [gentoo-user] converting openrc's dmesg to systemd service file

2014-04-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Douglas J Hunley doug.hun...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sure this is way more trivial than I'm making it out to be, but how in the world would one converty /etc/init.d/dmesg to a systemd service file? Is there a good online pointer about building service files?

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.ext4 -j /dev/sdb1

2010-11-27 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I just added a new drive to an existing system using an ext4 (journaled) file system. I was not sure about using the -j option so I did it anyway. Correct assumption? Irrelevant?  no examples to ponder. comments or

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: How to find out which physical NIC is for example eth0 ? If I have 2 NICs in the box, for example one e1000 and one from 3com, how to find out which one is eth0 ? I looked up

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