Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New Intel CPU flaws discovered

On 17/05/19 06:19, Andrew Udvare wrote: >> On May 17, 2019, at 01:14, Adam Carter wrote: >> >> The classic one is where OPS haven't noticed that disks in a RAID array have >> died years ago... > > This really happened? > It's probably more common than you think. Can't tell (don't really know)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I use containers?

On 19/05/19 00:49, Rich Freeman wrote: > I believe the reason the wiki says to be careful with mounts has more > to do with UID/GID mapping. As you are using nfs this is already an > issue you're probably dealing with. You're probably aware that > running nfs with multiple hosts with

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow SSD

On 22/05/19 22:44, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > I just put an SSD into my hp dl585g7. I used the provided sata SSD drive > connector, it's on the same sata driver that runs the optical drive. It's > terribly slow to boot etc. Is this just a slow controller designed to keep >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On 26/04/19 18:00, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2019-04-22, Dale wrote: >> >>> On the question of ethernet. [...] Do I plug the printer into the >>> router or do I have to connect it to the puter itself? I think I >>> read somewhere ages ago, on this list most likely, that you plug

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Picking out a printer. Questions.

On 28/04/19 00:37, Dale wrote: > I'm no networking guru by any stretch, I'm sure others would agree with > that, but that's my thinking. After all, if you have a printer with the > same IP, how would it know mine from yours unless it is local only? > From my understanding, 192.168.*.* addresses

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

On 13/07/19 20:23, Mick wrote: > Thanks Corbin, I wonder if despite articles about microcode patch releases to > deal with spectre and what not, there are just no patches made available for > my aging AMD CPUs. Or Spectre and what not are Intel specific ... I know a lot of the reports said

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

On 07/07/19 02:12, Dale wrote: > Wol's lists wrote: >> On 06/07/2019 15:56, Dale wrote: >>> Robin Atwood wrote: On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 09:11:22 +1000 Adam Carter wrote: >> OK panic over! I had shelled into the wrong system! The mystery is >> what I was trying to copy to, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

On 31/07/19 04:44, Dale wrote: > I think one of my problems is the SD card itself. I can access things > with the phone but I've noticed some of my other cards do strange > things. I've got one that won't allow me to delete items. I even ran > dd on the thing, the entire card, and the files are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

On 08/08/19 18:06, Dale wrote: > Picking random reply, sort of. Well, I finally got my SD card in. I > bought a 32GB one but found a good deal on a 64GB one that was really > close by so I ordered it. Still waiting on the 32GB one to arrive. > Anyway, I put the 64GB one in the phone when it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

On 14/08/19 03:35, Dale wrote: > I have one thing I have not been able to figure out tho. I accidentally > imported my contacts to the phone twice. When I go to the contacts part, > it shows Phone twice. I can't figure out how to delete one of them. No > need having two copies. I'm sure there

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

On 14/08/19 03:35, Dale wrote: > So, when I'm on a wi-fi, I can do some > things. Other than that, not happening. If I want to pay double tho, I > can get a regular plan more suited to my phone. I plan to keep my > cheapy plan for the time being. How cheap is your plan? The *cheapest* plan I

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption?

On 16/09/19 08:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > I was under the impression that the ESP had to be a FAT partition. The >> > small unpartitioned space is for when you are using a GPT >> > partition table with a non-EFI bootloader. Well, it's really unformatted, >> > it is a partition. > Ah. I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Accessing a Samsung phone and it's data.

On 30/07/19 09:10, Dale wrote: > It's weird, this was fairly easy on my old Razr. It was pretty basic and > all but it worked. :/ I've got a Motorola (Lenovo) G5, which I bought because it had the reputation of being pretty stock Android. I moved away from Samsung because that was heavily

Re: [gentoo-user] Massive kmail breakage with mariadb-10.4.6

On 09/07/19 11:38, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Eventually I noticed that mariadb had been upgraded, so I masked the latest >> > version and reverted to the older one. Lo! and Behold! Kmail sprang back >> > into life. > Today's update included dev-db/mysql-connector-c-6.1.11-r1 to -r2, so I tried >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

On 09/07/19 02:34, Adam Carter wrote: > lsdrv looks like lsblk, it's just that it handles afaik pretty much > everything - starts with the disk, then lists any partitions, any lvm's, > any raids, etc etc. > > > What does lsdrv have that lsblk is missing? Looking at "man lsblk",

Re: [gentoo-user] visualise openrc initscript start order and dependency tree

On 09/11/19 19:51, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 7:01 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On 9 November 2019 11:42:38 CET, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Fri, 08 Nov 2019 21:03:13 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> I had a similar issue and ended up checking every init-script, conf.d

Re: [gentoo-user] visualise openrc initscript start order and dependency tree

On 11/11/19 11:54, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 5:38 AM Wols Lists wrote: >> >> On 09/11/19 19:51, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> >>> Only if somebody has created a generator for openrc, which I doubt. >>> It was obviously a semi-trollish comm

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

On 17/11/19 20:35, n952162 wrote: >> >> Needless to say, you would not try this on the original partition, but a >> backup image you can create with ddrescue and friends. In any case, >> running >> fsck.ext4 -n (or -E nodiscard) should not cause any fs losses, unless the >> disk/hardware is

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

On 13/11/19 08:55, Mick wrote: > NOTE: I only press the power button momentarily. If I press and keep > pressed > the power button for a few seconds, then the system powers off instantly > without a graceful shutdown (a.k.a. I then will get a hard shutdown with no > disk syncing or flushing

Re: [gentoo-user] Bounced messages

On 06/11/19 00:50, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > Spam filters are pathetic, they rarely catch spam. Mine actually marks my > own post to this list as spam and puts them in the spam folder, along with > other messages sporadically. Yahoo cough cough ... I had a throwaway yahoo

Re: [gentoo-user] almost free launch: an idea to lower build time, and rice, at the same time

On 05/11/19 15:05, Mickaël Bucas wrote: > I remember reading an article about a man trying to reproduce binary > packages of a binary distribution and failing to do so, because there > are so many parts involved. I've read later that distributions have > done some work to have reproducible builds,

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

On 03/12/19 15:43, John Blinka wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 5:35 PM Neil Bothwick <mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk>> wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:47:35 +, Wols Lists wrote: > > > > There's no need to mess around

Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

On 20/10/19 13:39, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation from > scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are some > apps > in the Apple store, but I have not yet found anything in portage. > > Do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

On 18/10/19 10:26, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > specifically, i want to install kernel + initramfs without version > numbers. this way, i will not need to update my boot loader every time > i update the kernel. > You just want a nasty recovery job if the update screws up ... Seriously, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

On 20/10/19 10:59, Mick wrote: > On Sunday, 20 October 2019 00:35:56 BST Wol's lists wrote: > >> The original swap algorithm NEEDED twice ram as swap. And when Linus >> ripped out all the "optimisation", the vanilla kernels only needed to >> touch swap, and if they didn't have twice ram they

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

On 17/10/19 12:57, Dale wrote: > I couldn't figure out why cleaning out old cruft that shouldn't change > anything would trigger updates but it did. My mask file is short so > almost all changes were to the package.keyword file. I could understand > if I removed something and it wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On 26/11/19 15:16, Dale wrote: > Adam Carter wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:53 AM Ralph Seichter > > wrote: >> >> >> https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html >> >> This does not come as a surprise, of course, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

On 26/10/19 14:32, John Blinka wrote: > There's no need to mess around adding and removing masks, just use the - > - exclude option. > > Yep! For some reason, that option doesn’t always occur to me, but > that’s clearly a simpler way to do it. Thanks for reminding me! > Couldn't you just have

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On 26/11/19 23:56, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Adam Carter: > >> when i enable v6, all my internal hosts become directly routable from >> the Internet via the /56 my ISP assigns me. > > Even pretty anemic hardware can handle the demands of an IPv6 firewall, > for example using iptables/nftables.

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On 27/11/19 09:28, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 01:51:44 GMT Dale wrote: >> > Rich Freeman wrote: >>> > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 8:10 PM Dale wrote: > >> I went to Newegg. Hey, I buy stuff there sometimes. Anyway, I've > >> looked at several routers and none of them

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On 27/11/19 18:55, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Daniel Frey: > >> > I have exactly one choice for an ISP and I need a static IP. The ISP >> > disables ipv6 for some reason when you have a static IP. > Like I said, the availability of "decent" ISPs varies by location, and > there are of course

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

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] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 28/02/20 11:45, Michael wrote: > On Friday, 28 February 2020 11:04:43 GMT Wols Lists wrote: >> On 28/02/20 05:07, james wrote: >>> For data storage, long term important stuff, you should employ RAID >>> (1-10). We can get into that later, duplication of important dat

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 28/02/20 05:07, james wrote: > For data storage, long term important stuff, you should employ RAID > (1-10). We can get into that later, duplication of important data, via > backups or extra storage is a good idea too. Backups are an old > technology, but may help, but backups do can get old

Re: [gentoo-user] Rasp-Pi-4 Gentoo servers

On 27/02/20 21:49, Rich Freeman wrote: > A fairly cheap amd64 system can run a ton of services in containers > though, and it is way simpler to maintain that way. I still get quick > access to snapshots/etc, but now if I want to run a gentoo container > it is no big deal if 99% of the time it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: looking for email provider

On 01/02/20 22:08, Jack wrote: > Relying on the collective experience and advice of the group here. > > As may be obvious to many of you, the address this message is sent from > "...@users.sourceforge.net" isn't really a fully functional address. > Email sent to that address will be forwarded by

Re: [gentoo-user] USB sound card not recognized as capture device

On 23/01/20 13:59, Mick wrote: >> Where can I post this problem? I've been using Linux for 20 years, but >> > this is my first problem with the kernel. I found these forums: >> > >> > https://forum.linuxfoundation.org/categories/drivers >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 12/01/20 13:39, Mick wrote: > 2. Obligatory Microsoft Account registration. > > Every time I touch a MSWindows OS I get more annoyed than the last time. I > went through the installation process. During the finishing touches of the > installation the OS configured the keyboard, network and

Re: [gentoo-user] can you save a filesystem destroyed with mkswap?

On 16/01/20 07:41, Andrew Udvare wrote: > >> On 2020-01-16, at 02:30, n952162 wrote: >> >> Does anyone have experience with this? Is it possible to a save an >> ext3/4 system destroyed by mkswap? >> >> >> > > Try app-admin/testdisk > > Get to a point where you know for sure nothing is writing

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

On 16/01/20 21:01, james wrote: > On 1/13/20 3:24 AM, n952162 wrote: >> On 2020-01-12 16:48, james wrote: >>> I also install and re-install, as many of the gentoo systems get >>> "attacked" before I can� complete a secure install, or the hackers >>> just read much more than I do. >>> I guess I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] .tmp-unverified-download-quarantine

On 18/01/20 17:45, n952162 wrote: > What protocol doesn't use acknowledgements? > Why would an eavesdropper want to acknowledge ANYTHING? Isn't that the whole point? Cheers, Wol > > On 2020-01-18 14:50, Wols Lists wrote: >> On 16/01/20 21:01, james wrote: >>> On 1/1

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 09/01/20 11:00, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:42:14 GMT Wols Lists wrote: >> > On 08/01/20 09:26, Mick wrote: >>> > > The OS Product Key for a Win 7 will not work on a Win 10, unless the >>> > > free >>> > > upgrade opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 08/01/20 09:26, Mick wrote: > The OS Product Key for a Win 7 will not work on a Win 10, unless the free > upgrade option had been performed before July 2016. At least it has not > worked here ... You'll need a Product Key, Digital License, or a Microsoft > Account which has been linked to

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 12/01/20 16:36, Mick wrote: > Hmm ... I can see how Microsoft's move to cloud computing for home users can > quickly escalate to a spiral of confusion and annoyance. The problem, of course, is it assumes reliable fast internet ... At home, last I looked I couldn't upgrade with my current

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problem

On 30/12/19 19:18, Daniel Frey wrote: > 2. On all NFS clients, including the NFS server which mounted other NFS > mounts, all NFS client options had to be selected or the mount would > fail. It didn't matter specifying nfsvers=4.0 as a mount option, it > failed if there was no NFS client kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

On 24/12/19 09:53, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 December 2019 06:40:13 GMT Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> It seems plasmashell and wallpapers for the desktop has a problem. I'm >> not sure if it is just me or if it could affect others. Either way, I >> have no idea how to fix it. I have a LOT of

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

On 24/12/19 18:35, Dale wrote: > I'll try to see if I can get the actual error here in a bit, either a > picture or the actual text. I only need one line because it is the same > for them all except the name and path of the file. I've just had an idea ... I think it was on LWN they were

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

On 24/12/19 20:33, Dale wrote: > I think it is indexing/caching/something that requires it to look at > every single file in there plus all the levels below it. If so, that > would be a huge task. Here is some info on that but I did post it a bit > ago. It was sort of nested in one of the posts.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

On 24/12/19 22:23, Dale wrote: > Wols Lists wrote: >> On 24/12/19 20:33, Dale wrote: >>> I think it is indexing/caching/something that requires it to look at >>> every single file in there plus all the levels below it. If so, that >>> would be a huge task. Here

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

On 28/12/19 18:14, Dale wrote: > I'm pretty much certain you are right. That rings a bell in those cells > between my ears. It is turned off in make.conf too. I can't recall > what all that thing did but I remember people not wanting it. I just > followed a bunch of others on that. Can't be

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 06/01/20 23:37, Mark Knecht wrote: > Michael, >I got Win 10 Pro installed via the M$ tool that creates USB install > devices. It worked fine. Reading online it seems that if M$ sees the new > disk as still the same 'hardware' then it's supposed to automatically > validate and I'd be good to

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

On 06/01/20 19:55, Michael Jones wrote: > > As for windows 10 licensing, don't trust me on this blindly, but your > license should be tied to the hardware fingerprint of the laptop. So > even installing windows fresh on your new SSD should result in Windows > activating automatically. In fact,

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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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 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] 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] 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

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