Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

On 27/11/2021 22:15, Kees wrote: >The docu says "emerge @module-rebuild". >Both of these terminate with "nothing to rebuild". Strange. try: emerge virtualbox-modules That should be rebuild after everuy kernel upgrade and that happens normally with emerge @module-rebuild "nothing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

fails with "nothing to emerge". Unless I do an "emerge -C", but that of course will then break the old kernel (assuming I might want to go back to it ...) Cheers, Wol On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 8:00 AM Wols Lists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: On 27/

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

On 27/11/2021 12:41, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday, 27 November 2021 12:29:10 GMT Wols Lists wrote: Simple problem, after a kernel upgrade, virtualbox no longer works. This is to be expected, of course, BUT ... How do I fix it !!! What I always did on my old system was to re-emerge

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade breaks virtualbox

Simple problem, after a kernel upgrade, virtualbox no longer works. This is to be expected, of course, BUT ... How do I fix it !!! What I always did on my old system was to re-emerge the modules. The docu says "emerge @module-rebuild". Both of these terminate with "nothing to rebuild". What

Re: [gentoo-user] Any decent alternative to Thunderbird?

On 17/11/2021 11:55, Róbert Čerňanský wrote: On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 15:39:14 -0800 Jigme Datse wrote: I'm using Claws Mail though I'm not sure if it is a valid answer, I do know that it's the answer I have decided on. Yes, Thunderbird is still installed, but I don't have a clue when I last used

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does genkernel mess about with mounts, when make install doesn't?

On 13/11/2021 00:36, Jack wrote: On 2021.11.12 18:34, Wol wrote: I've just been swearing blue murder because when I run "make install" it puts the kernel in /boot. But when I run genkernel it mounts a completely different boot, sticks the initramfs in there, and then unmounts it. Which

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

On 05/10/2021 00:44, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday, 5 October 2021 00:11:42 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: When I checked it in the past rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version emerge -C gentoo-sources-version was significantly faster than emerge -C gentoo-sources-version rm -fr /usr/src/linux-version

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

On 04/10/2021 07:13, Miles Malone wrote: I would strongly, STRONGLY discourage you from creating your own meta package. There are very few meta packages in the tree (in the scheme of things) for very good reasons, they take one hell of a lot of maintenance. They're really only there for things

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 01/10/2021 17:08, Mark Knecht wrote: This old machine is now about 10 years old. It's a big Cooler Master case, 6 or 8 removable drive bays, heavy. It collects dust and sometimes the fans are quite noisy. If I was going this direction I think I'd have to tear the whole thing down, redo the

Re: [gentoo-user] NAS suggestions for home user

On 30/09/21 22:50, Mark Knecht wrote: > I'm in the study phase on some sort of NAS backup system for my home. > I'll be building (or buying) a new desktop/server machine in the next > few months - my i980 machine doesn't have the right instruction set for > running Tensorflow anymore - so I want

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

On 29/09/2021 21:58, Dale wrote: Since the drive also uses LVM, someone mentioned using snapshots. Me? Still not real clear on those even tho I've read a bit about them.  Some of the backup technics are confusing to me.  I get plain files, even incremental to a extent but some of the new

Re: [gentoo-user] console scrollback (kernel 5.14)

On 26/09/2021 22:22, Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 6:24 PM antlists wrote: Hello, Wol and Dale When you rebuild it, get a surge protector and then put a UPS behind that ... snag is that's all extra expense :-( Surge protectors: I googled it and mostly got bad reviews. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

On 31/07/21 04:14, William Kenworthy wrote: > (seagate lists it as a 5Tb drive managed SMR) > > It was sold as a USB3 4Tb desktop expansion drive, fdisk -l shows "Disk > /dev/sde: 3.64 TiB, 4000787029504 bytes, 7814037167 sectors" and Seagate > is calling it 5Tb - marketing! Note that it's now

Re: [gentoo-user] cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not

On 26/07/21 22:00, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:10:19PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > >> I've had more drives go bad when using USB enclosures than I've ever had >> on IDE or (e)SATA. > > Interesting, I can’t really confirm such a correlation from the drives I > have lying

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

On 29/07/21 10:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I just directly formatted one of my two Philips 128G USB 3.0 sticks with > "mkntfs" and the write performance without VeraCrypt did not improve. > Further searching the web I found that vendors were rarely specifying > the writing speeds of their

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

On 25/07/21 14:49, Dale wrote: > The problem here is that a user installed a package outside of > emerge/portage's knowledge. No that does *NOT* appear to be the problem. The problem is that the user installed - *using* *portage* - a package that satisfied a critical system dependency. Except

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

On 25/07/21 12:47, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> They are, @system is a set of packages and nothing it it will be >> > depcleaned. However, openrc is not part of @system, the virtual is. > Ah, that's it. So we have critical system packages which aren't part of > @system. I think openrc is a critical

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

On 24/07/21 22:09, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since > there's no ebuild for it. Originally, I had daemontools from the same > place, until I discovered there was an ebuild for it. THAT LOOKS LIKE YOUR PROBLEM. If daemontools has been

Re: [gentoo-user] [FIXED] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 28/06/21 20:23, antlists wrote: > On 26/06/2021 13:00, Michael wrote: >> On Saturday, 26 June 2021 11:50:01 BST antlists wrote: >> >>> I just want a working systemd/wayland desktop system. So basically, a >>> full-weight normal desktop. >> [snip ...] >> >>> I've got this one selected,

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

On 21/06/21 16:17, Michael wrote: > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work with > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a > black screen. > > Anyway, from a VT you'd run something like: > > XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

021 16:17:41 +0100 >>>>> >>>>> Michael wrote: >>>>>> On Monday, 21 June 2021 17:27:31 BST Wols Lists wrote: >>>>>>> What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I want to

[gentoo-user] New install - Wayland and graphical login

What happens when you get to the end of the handbook? I want to get a working Wayland setup with a (multi-user) graphical login. When I set my old system up ($DEITY knows how long ago) I seem to remember a page on setting up X, and all sorts of stuff. Now, you seem to get dumped at working tty1

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] New install - root is mounted read-only

On 18/06/21 10:31, Adam Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:15 PM Wols Lists <mailto:antli...@youngman.org.uk>> wrote: > > I've started tackling my new build again, and when it boots root is > read-only. Hopefully I've just missed something stu

Re: [gentoo-user] Python-3.9 and emerge problems

On 18/06/21 10:46, Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello all, > > This morning : > > #emerge --sync > #emerge --oneshot sys-apps/portage > #emerge -auvDN --with-bdeps=y --keep-going world You can't try just updating python? When I tried to emerge portage it blew up with loads of stuff about 3.8 and

[gentoo-user] New install - root is mounted read-only

I've started tackling my new build again, and when it boots root is read-only. Hopefully I've just missed something stupid, but how to I get it to transition read-write? System is grub, systemd, and root is an lv ... Do I need to do anything special with the initrd? Manually remounting fixes it

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo alternatives

On 07/06/21 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:25:55 +0200, n952162 wrote: > >>> You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine >>> to spread the load. >>> >>> >> >> Ah, that's also interesting ... that's like an alternative to a local >> binary server

Re: [SOLVED] [gentoo-user] Less available memory than installed

On 03/06/21 21:20, Toldi Balázs wrote: > I tried booting from Minimal install disk. It had the same problem. > > Then I tried pulling the two ram sticks out and put them back. It seems > like this fixed my issue (Although I don't really know what caused it in > the first place). > Could it be

Re: [gentoo-user] Less available memory than installed

On 03/06/21 18:16, Toldi Balázs wrote: > Hello! > > In my current PC I have 16 GB of RAM installed. It worked fine until > today, when I upgraded my CPU from a Ryzen 5 1500X to a Ryzen 7 2700. > The system boots up just fine, but when I use the free command the total > memory is only 8 GB. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual booting with Windows 10

On 25/05/21 20:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 17:43:00 BST antlists wrote: >> On 25/05/2021 16:23, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> 4. I have the existing ESP mounted on /boot. It belongs to Windows and >>> cannot be enlarged beyond 100MB. >> >> I don't know how this works, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescue+new asus mobo+secure boot=0

On 12/05/21 13:43, John Blinka wrote: > > > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 8:57 PM Mike Kaliman > wrote: > > I have an Asus TUF Gaming X570 and have the secure boot OS type as > "Other OS". I've been using rEFInd to dual boot with Windows. > > > So, this

Re: [gentoo-user] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021

On 09/05/21 09:29, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 > GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 > GB? Like adding watermarks, and cutting away unwanted 4K scenes. Is > there a good 4K video

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

On 27/04/21 23:00, Michael wrote: > There's three options, I can think of: > > 1. Use dev-lang/rust-bin, as Matt suggested above. > > 2. Buy more RAM, or use a surrogate PC with more RAM to cross-compile it. > > 3. Use a partition with enough space on it to bind mount /var/tmp/portage, > for

Re: [gentoo-user] Network switch - LED will not turn ON

On 26/04/21 22:53, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > If they cable is the problem the LED port on the 70ft long cable on the > switch would be orange "not green"; correct me anybody if I'm wrong. I guess it depends what's wrong with the cable. And what the green light is testing for. There'#s a

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for other Seamonkey users

On 06/04/21 05:19, Dale wrote: > Another question, can I just copy my current emails over and "import" > them? I think Seamonkey uses mbox type setup. I know I could with > Thunderbird but it was a bit fussy. It did work tho. It also made it > easier to switch back. Consider setting up a local

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

On 10/03/21 18:37, Grant Taylor wrote: > ACK > > By default, Kerberos includes IP restrictions in tickets. It chooses > the IP based on what the system returns. So if the system returns > 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) for the hostname, any tickets that use that IP will > be non-viable / useless anywhere

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Saving an image as black and white

On 01/03/21 13:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:50:35 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > >> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And >> they're rather big ... I want to email them. >> >> How on earth do I convert them to T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Saving an image as black and white

On 01/03/21 12:11, (Nuno Silva) wrote: > On 2021-03-01, Wols Lists wrote: > >> I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And >> they're rather big ... I want to email them. >> >> How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b documents? At the momen

[gentoo-user] [OT] Saving an image as black and white

I've got a bunch of scans, let's assume they're text documents. And they're rather big ... I want to email them. How on earth do I convert them to TRUE b documents? At the moment they are jpegs that weigh in at 3MB, and I guess they're using about 5 bytes to store all the colour, luminance,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward?

On 25/02/21 08:45, hitachi303 wrote: > Am 25.02.2021 um 02:43 schrieb Grant Taylor: >> I need to update a system that hasn't been updated in 337 days (March >> 24th 2020. -- Life has been ... trying. >> >> What is the best way forward? >> >> It seems as if there have been a lot of changes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update [ probably RESOLVED ]

On 08/02/21 21:39, n952162 wrote: > On 2/8/21 9:17 PM, n952162 wrote: >> VBoxClient --clipboard seems to be broken with a recent update >> >> You can start it without error but it just goes away. The last thing in >> the strace is a clone. >> >> Anybody else seen this problem or know of a fix? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

On 09/02/21 11:29, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've >> tried a >> few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For >> instance, today I tried installing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

On 08/02/21 05:40, Dan Egli wrote: > Hey folks, I'm a bit lost on this, so I hope you can help me out. Dunno how much help I'll be ... > > I have a computer I want to act as the central print server for a > network. It would spool all jobs for all printers, and send them out to > the actual

Re: [gentoo-user] Console scrollback

On 20/01/21 19:59, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I can understand the kernel > maintainers not being enthusiastic about the existing code. But that > dates from, I believe, the 1990s, when RAM was measured in megabytes, and > processor speeds in megahertz. Optimisation for speed and store usage > just

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing and moving home directory to new partition on same drive

On 11/01/21 04:06, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, antlists wrote: >> And a little bit you might have missed - DON'T put root's home on a mounted >> disk - if it's currently in /home, move it to /. Don't forget to edit >> /etc/passwd if you have to move it. > > Can I use

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing and moving home directory to new partition on save drive

On 11/01/21 00:31, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 1/10/21 3:46 PM, antlists wrote: >> On 10/01/2021 21:42, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> I want to move /home directory to a new partition (save drive). >>> >>> I have 1-SSD drive: >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% >>> /dev/sda4

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

On 30/12/20 01:04, Grant Edwards wrote: > You must be talking about some sort of weird "wide" encoding (is there > such a thing as UTF-16?). I've never seen a file like that. Everybody > and everything uses UTF-8 these days and has for years. UTF-8 is a > superset of ASCII, and doesn't increase

Re: [gentoo-user] Rearranging hard drives and data.

On 19/12/20 21:31, David Haller wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, antlists wrote: >> On 19/12/2020 18:49, David Haller wrote: >>> -dnh, the MoBo though is quite a fine piece with 8 SATA + 2 eSATA >>> ports onboard:) I'm gonna miss eSATA in newer HW:( Hot-plug >>> almost like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update fails, but I don't see why

On 14/12/20 08:51, Dale wrote: > If you are able, maybe you can compile the bigger packages on a faster > system? If it is a option, it may help. If I have multiple similar machines, I create a shared a shared local repository. Then I run emerge with the settings (can't remember what they are)

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] fsck.fat 4.1 - File system couldn't be fixed [SOLVED]

On 14/12/20 05:41, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Excerpt from Michael: > >> Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate >> and >> run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on the >> ESP >> may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other UEFI

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

On 07/12/20 04:24, Dale wrote: > I visited with my friend who recently got the same type of internet I'll > be getting. Odds are, the boxes will be the same. She has hers through > a power company and that's what I'm getting, just a different power > company. Anyway, as I suspected, it has a

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate gentoo system - errors

On 25/11/20 13:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > Now, one area I would use UUIDs is with mdadm if you're not putting > lvm on top. I've seen mdadm arrays get renumbered and that is a mess > if you're directly mounting them without labels or UUIDs. Or if you do it properly you don't need UUIDs :-) mdadm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub and multiple distros on LVM [was duplicate gentoo system ...]

On 24/11/20 23:39, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 23:25:38 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > In grub, does chainloading an LVM virtual partition work the same as chainloading a "real" partition? >>> >>> I suspect not as GRUB will be reading the menu files and GRUB

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

On 30/10/20 21:56, Dale wrote: > I read somewhere that > it is being fought. I think EFF is involved along with others. Let's hope the EFF / Github argue "unclean hands" - that one of the primary uses of youtube-dl is to get round the copy-protection that the RIAA has forced copyright holders to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: > Why do you need two graphics cards? I've been driving two monitors off > each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, > from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra power connector. Because I'm not driving two monitors. I'm running a

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

On 13/10/20 16:37, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Since the profile without the desktop emerged @world correctly after the > make.conf file got adjusted correctly for this computer I think all it > will run will be the basic profile. Even if it were possible to emerge > the compiles necessary for a

Re: [gentoo-user] tried desktop profile

On 13/10/20 07:48, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:28:01 AM CEST Andreas Fink wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 02:10:04 -0400 >> >> Jude DaShiell wrote: >>> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated >>> program cc1plus compilation terminated. >> >> These two

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

On 11/10/20 05:42, Jonathan Yong wrote: > Was it just the previous message? I canceled sending the message when I > realized it wasn't signed. Google SMTP must have accepted it anyway. You can't cancel a message. Once it's left your inbox, it's gone. And Google won't/can't do anything (unless

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

On 09/10/20 23:49, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-09, Ashley Dixon wrote: > >> Especially with `grub-mkconfig`, you don't have to manually edit >> configuration >> files at all, which doesn't seem to be an option for users of LILO. > > I always had a lot of problems getting

Re: [gentoo-user] about to install kernel source package

On 10/10/20 01:09, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Before I do this, would it be useful to do > emerge --config espeak in the chroot environment? > On a previous kernel install failure, I ended up emerging espeakup and it > was only then I found the accessibility support submenu in make menuconfig > had

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions

On 13/09/20 13:26, Peter Humphrey wrote: > So I'm still left wondering what to do. I'm happy that the hardware isn't on > the blink, anyway. Can you use gdisk to create a new partition in some empty space on the disk, delete it again, and write a partition table? Basically anything to get gdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On 08/09/20 15:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: > There is a way, uninstall rust. virtual/rust requires only one of rust > and rust-bin, if both are installed it will take rust meaning rust-bin > gets depcleaned. If only one is installed, the virtual will take that. If > neither is install, the virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to switch from rust to rust-bin?

On 07/09/20 20:54, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-09-07, Andreas K Hüttel wrote: > >> That works, but pretty please try something else first! >> >> # make sure source-based rust is not in the world file >> emerge --deselect dev-lang/rust >> >> emerge -1 dev-lang/rust-bin >> >> It should be as

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

On 03/09/20 18:44, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > i think this problem that we have could've been > avoided if the web was originally designed to only > deliver content, without any power to dictate > appearance, so that appearance is 100% a task that > a local client should choose. Isn't that how

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the fastest file system for microsd?

On 31/08/20 21:00, Andrew Udvare wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 15:07 никита степанов > wrote: > > What is the fastest file system for microsd? > > > Any file system without journaling and other extra parts. I would place > my bets on ext2 in terms of raw speed. >

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

On 30/08/20 14:06, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > you know there is this almost neat concept called > url? > > rumours say that urls can identify various web > applications, ranging from websites, rss, games, > video, and, guess what? mails. all over > http/https/h2 over same tcp 80/443. hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

On 29/08/20 20:47, William Hubbs wrote: >> > Sound to me like you are an excellent candidate to join the Gentoo >> > Council? If so, contact Mgorny for pointers. > The functions being discussed in this thread belong to the > trustees (the board of directors for the foundation) [1]. Thhey are >

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

On 21/08/20 02:39, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Thursday, August 20, 2020 11:41 AM, antlists > wrote: > >> Will that python script allow for the situation that the message is >> received, but the message was NOT safely stored for onwards transmission >>

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

On 17/08/20 12:33, Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 04:50:43AM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: >> thoughts on how to maximally satisfy these >> requirements? > > How many concurrent users will be connected to the mail server? How much > traffic > will the S.M.T.P. server receive

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

On 04/08/20 08:42, Wols Lists wrote: > Both LVM and btrfs offer snapshotting, so you take a snapshot before > doing an in-place rsync, giving you one full backup per snapshot, but > the drive is actually only storing the changes between snapshots. > Probably run the backup much faste

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

On 04/08/20 04:17, Dale wrote: > This drive is formatted with ext4. It doesn't have LVM or anything just > straight ext4. Given it is external, I didn't see the point of having > LVM on it and adding another layer to deal with when there is no > benefits to it. LVM has a big advantage if not

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

On 29/07/20 00:11, james wrote: > On 7/28/20 12:10 PM, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 28/07/20 16:01, james wrote: >>> (2) DNS resolvers, (?) mail-servers for a robust mail system that "I" >>> admin, and (1) internet facing web server and (1) internal only facing >

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

On 29/07/20 00:18, james wrote: > It's the bandwidth provider's policy. Static IPs (4 or 6) requires a > monthly fee. If you know a way around this, with full privileges one > gets with static IP addresses, I'm all ears.? ? I can understand a fee for a static IP4 - they've run out, after

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mail server

On 28/07/20 16:01, james wrote: > (2) DNS resolvers, (?) mail-servers for a robust mail system that "I" > admin, and (1) internet facing web server and (1) internal only facing > or limited outward facing Web server for development and security based > testing. Static IP are basically $5/month

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

On 23/07/20 06:45, Walter Dnes wrote: > ...does indeed pull in sphinx. If I didn't know any better, I'd say > that Lennart is behind this. Anyhow, I've managed to avoid llvm > altogether (USE="-llvm"), so I don't have that problem. I think you might find sphinx is a dependency of the kernel ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

On 23/06/20 19:32, Sid Spry wrote: > The danger of SMART is that rate of false negatives is so high (IME) that > you might erroneously think a drive is not going to fail and putting off a > backup. A good backup policy should mitigate this, but you still might plan > around drive lifetime SMART

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On 21/06/20 00:11, Michael wrote: > PS. exFAT has made it into the latest Linux kernels. Great. So linux may be able to read the card just fine, but it's still useless in the device I bought it for ... :-) Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

On 20/06/20 23:14, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It sounds like it may be filesystem corruption. With an SD card I'd > either reformat it, preferably in the device that will be using it, If that's possible ... :-) I now have two devices, my car radio and a tv, both of which require the vfat filesystem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

On 17/06/20 05:47, Dale wrote: > From what I've read, all the drive makers were selling SMR without > telling anyone at first. It wasn't just WD but Seagate as well. Yes, but Seagate didn't start selling SMR drives advertised as "optimised for raid/nas".THAT is what's so bad about the WD case -

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

On 16/06/20 10:04, Dale wrote: > I might add, I don't have LVM on that drive. I read it does not work > well with LVM, RAID etc as you say. Most likely, that drive will always > be a external drive for backups or something. If it ever finds itself > on the OS or /home, it'll be a last resort.

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing a used hard drive to make SURE it is good.

On 16/06/20 08:34, Dale wrote: > Right now, I'm backing up to a 8TB external drive, sadly it is a SMR > drive but it works. As I go along, I'll be breaking down my backups. > Example. I may have my Documents directory, which includes my camera > pics, backed up to one drive. I may have videos

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

On 10/06/20 06:47, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > nomodeset did not change anything, but adding EFI_FB to the kernel finally > got me a functional console. But if I startx from there I am back again to > the same point, no X, no console switching with CTR-ALT-Fn, no crash in > syslog, I have to SSH

Re: [gentoo-user] Seagate ST8000NM0065 PMR or SMR plus NAS SAS SATA question

On 23/05/20 08:39, Michael wrote: > Is there a way to determine if a drive on sale is SMR *before* purchase? I > assume after purchase it is a matter of filling up the drive with zeros and > keeping an eye on it stalling for minutes at a time; or is there some hdparm/ > smartctl output to

Re: [gentoo-user] New system, systemd, and dm-integrity

On 15/05/20 14:49, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 9:18 AM antlists wrote: >> >> On 15/05/2020 12:30, Rich Freeman wrote: I've snipped it, but I can't imagine dracut/mdadm having the problems you describe today - there are too many systems out there that boot from lvm/mdadm. My

[gentoo-user] New system, systemd, and dm-integrity

I'm finally building my new system, but I'm pretty certain I'll need some advice to get it to boot. As you might guess from the subject the "problem" is dm-integrity. I'm using openSUSE as my host system, which I used to set up the disk(s). So currently I have sdb --> sdb3 --> dm-integity

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

On 03/05/20 08:53, hitachi303 wrote: > Nothing you asked but I had very bad experience with drives which spin > down by themselves to save energy (mostly titled green or so). Good catch! For anything above raid 1, MAKE SURE your drives support SCT/ERC. For example, Seagate Barracudas are very

Re: [gentoo-user] which linux RAID setup to choose?

On 03/05/20 06:44, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > hi - i'm to setup my 1st RAID, and i'd appreciate > if any of you volunteers some time to share your > valuable experience on this subject. > > my scenario > --- > > 0. i don't boot from the RAID. > > 1. read is as important as

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

On 02/05/20 02:42, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > On 05/01 09:27, antlists wrote: >> On 01/05/2020 09:03, tu...@posteo.de wrote: >>> Hi Wol, >>> >>> data copied !:) >>> >>> I did a >>> >>> mdadm --examine /dev/sdb >> >> Except I pointed you at a utility called lsdrv, not mdadm ... :-) >> >> Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

On 01/05/20 21:29, Dale wrote: > It gets really slow to respond when it uses swap but it beats crashing. > Just set swapiness to a low number. I think mine is set to 10. > > Given the cheapness of hard drives, I'm not sure why having several > gigabytes of swap space is of much concern. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

On 30/04/20 11:36, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > But than I have the same problem another way around: I can > no longer access my new system ... due to the different > sector size > > Are there any other ways to fix this problem? All I can suggest is to check the kernel and see if it's an option

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble with backup harddisks

On 30/04/20 10:32, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi, > > recently I switched from the old MBR-scheme to GPT on > my new PC. > > I have two external USB-harddisk, which were partioned/formatted with > a MBR-scheme/MSDOS partition (but were never used to boot from. They are pure > data containers). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding fstrim...

On 14/04/20 13:51, Rich Freeman wrote: > I believe they have > to be PCIv3+ and typically have 4 lanes, which is a lot of bandwidth. My new mobo - the manual says if I put an nvme drive in - I think it's the 2nd nvme slot - it disables the 2nd graphics card slot :-( Seeing as I need two graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

On 24/03/20 20:11, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > from now on, will start the smart daemon + some raid solution (after replacing > faulty disk). https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] repair uefi vfat /boot?

On 22/03/20 22:40, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > any idea why 1 partition (uefi vfat) is suffering errors, but the other ext4 > isn't? Simple. If the surface is decaying, it will be localised. It's decided to hit the locality of the uefi partition. This is what would, in the old days, lead to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: swaps mounted randomly [not out of the woods yet]

On 19/03/20 07:17, n952162 wrote: > Where is the UUID determined? I'd presumed that it was derived from > some characteristics of the drive, determined by the device controller, > but now I'm wondering if my initial RAID configuration set some > drive-internal variable to be identical? Did you

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

On 03/03/20 09:36, Michael wrote: > As a rule I do not have java on my systems. Before you go recompiling LO to > take USE=java out, note that LO uses java for a number of plugins and without > it they won't work. For example, some of database plugins used in LO Base to > open and edit SQL

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

On 06/03/20 19:39, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 2:07 PM Wols Lists wrote: >> >> On 06/03/20 13:48, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> If you fall into this camp you need to still update your firmware to >>> address the non-TPM-user and to avoid making it

Re: [gentoo-user] New Intel vulnerability?

On 06/03/20 13:48, Rich Freeman wrote: > If you fall into this camp you need to still update your firmware to > address the non-TPM-user and to avoid making it trivial for software > to steal your keys/etc. However, you need to be aware that you are no > longer secure against physical theft of

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

On 04/03/20 10:19, n952162 wrote: > Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a. No problems in > /var/log/messages. I wonder. Is mount order deterministic at boot? Is it possible that you're trying to activate the swap files before the underlying file systems are mounted? Cheers,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a cell?

On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote: > I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell > bandwidth rights", is constitutional? Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past would have been a free-for-all leading to a major tragedy of the commons. Much like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

On 24/02/20 08:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 18:59:27 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > >> In a desperate act to satisfy the ever increasing build space >> requirements for firefox and its kin, I'd symlinked /var/tmp/portage to >> a subdirectory of /usr/portage. And webrsync does

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