Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Carter
> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs. > Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as > far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be > double-quoted, and the quotes are stripped on import. > Thanks - looks like quoting

[gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-27 Thread Adam Carter
To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic work? Different character sets within the same file? Is it possible to do this with shell scripting?

[gentoo-user] 'make install' hijacked by installkernel ?

2024-01-26 Thread Adam Carter
I just tried to install a new kernel using 'make install' only to find that the behaviour has changed and it appears to be running a bunch on installkernel stuff. 'make help' says install - Install kernel using (your) ~/bin/installkernel or (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or install to

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge load again

2024-01-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > > So if it's consistently gcc that collapses to two threads, then > > something (maybe explicit settings, maybe dependencies, maybe yadda > > yadda) is telling make that only two jobs can run at the same time else > > they'll trip over each other. > > > > Could be a dev has hard-coded the "two

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveGUI USB Image

2024-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
> > > dd if=/path/to/iso-image of=/dev/sd? bs=4M status=progress > > > > Replace the obvious bits. > > I've tried a few values of block size over the years, but so far I haven't > noticed any difference. I haven't run any proper tests though. > I think it's just that the default blocksize is (or

[gentoo-user] Choosing --param l2-cache-size

2024-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
>From https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87444 it appears that l2-cache-size is a misnomer; "A comment in driver-i386.c says: /* Let the L3 replace the L2. This assumes inclusive caches and single threaded program for now. */ if (level3.sizekb) level2 = level3;" "Probably

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-21 Thread Adam Carter
> > Could it be that some kind of Spectre mitigation is active? I just read > about > some massive performance problems in Kernel 5.19+ on Skylake CPUs. Stable > gentoo kernel was upgraded to 6.1 recently, which could also be affected > by > this problem. > See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge times blown out

2023-02-19 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I've checked the frequencies of the cores and they are scaling properly: cpu MHz : 4024.653 cpu MHz : 4024.678 cpu MHz : 4024.639 cpu MHz : 4024.605 cpu MHz : 4024.643 etc Will continue to pursue these lines of thought.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-17 Thread Adam Carter
> > Does that info help? > > My reason for asking is that i'm seeing this across multiple systems, 2 AMD, 1 Intel, who's configuration hasn't really changed and while there is some variance there has been a step change late December / early January. Another example Sat Nov 26 14:34:50 2022

[gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-17 Thread Adam Carter
I have three systems (all ~arch) and the emerge times have blown out on all of them across all packages. Worst example appears to be; Fri Dec 23 13:11:44 2022 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.38.3-r410 merge time: 37 minutes and 8 seconds. Fri Dec 23 13:43:08 2022 >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync local mirror question

2022-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:35 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > I followed https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror instructions for > doing a local rsync mirror. I ran commented the rsync mirrors line in > the client's make.conf and ran "emerge --sync". The client still > synced from a server on the

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate... /bin/echo: write error: No such device

2022-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 7:53 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > One of the last few items on the laptop setup. I emerged hibernate > and copied over the /etc/hibernate/ directory from my desktop. When I > try to hibernate the laptop, I get... > > [thimk][root][~] hibernate > /bin/echo: write error: No

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge 7-9% faster with python 3.11 beta 4

2022-07-20 Thread Adam Carter
> How is it compared to PyPy3? > > I didn’t find pypy any faster than 3.10.

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 2:41 AM Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 16 July 2022 11:57:25 BST Dale wrote: > > > >> Basically, I can upload files as fast as I download them. Now I can > upload > >> videos or something. > > ...or run a web server! > > > > > That's way above

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
> > And you'll need to always keep in mind that a VPN is a low-level > protection. It's enough for protecting yourself against spammers, script > kiddies or > similar but it can't keep you private in the face of any high-level > threats. Don't place too much trust in VPNs. > I'm not an expert,

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC whitelisting and UDP traffic.

2022-07-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 4:13 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:35 AM Laurence Perkins > wrote: > >> Ok, I asked a while ago about whitelisting MAC ranges for firewall rules, >> and just so you know, adding 16 million potential MAC addresses >>

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC whitelisting and UDP traffic.

2022-07-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:35 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > Ok, I asked a while ago about whitelisting MAC ranges for firewall rules, > and just so you know, adding 16 million potential MAC addresses to the > firewall… Doesn’t work well… No matter how you do it. So I had to write > a daemon to

[gentoo-user] emerge 7-9% faster with python 3.11 beta 4

2022-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
FYI, i've found 'emerge -pvuUD world' is 7-9% faster on my machines when I compare 3.10 to 3.11b4. To achieve this i've added '*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: -* python3_10 python3_11' to package.use on my ~arch systems, then run 'emerge -avuUD portage'. At the end of this python-exec.conf contains;

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-11 Thread Adam Carter
FYI, the windows installer added an entry to the EFI boot loader (as Boot), but left Gentoo as the active entry; # efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0003 Timeout: 15 seconds BootOrder: 0003,,0008,0007,0001,0002 Boot* Windows Boot Manager Boot0001* Hard Drive Boot0002* Network Card Boot0003*

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-10 Thread Adam Carter
> > iirc (and I'm about to do it again), Windows just makes itself default, > and sets boot timeout to 0. > > So no I wouldn't bother modifying grub - just set the EFI timeout to, > say, 5 secs. You then choose between Windows and grub, and then let grub > sort out the linux side for you. > Ok,

[gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-09 Thread Adam Carter
I'm assuming that windows will modify the EFI configuration and i will need to boot, say, a minimal cd image to run efibootmgr to set it back, then add a Windows entry to the grub config. Is that correct? Anything else i should be concerned about?

Re: [gentoo-user] strange errors in http log, what can/should I do about it.

2022-02-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Monday, February 28, 2022, John Covici wrote: > I got the following error this morning during my logwatch processing > which I run daily and I would like to know if there is anything I can > should do about it? Seems to me it could be serious, if someone has > penetrated my server. > > A

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 5.15+ (thru 5.16.5)

2022-02-03 Thread Adam Carter
> > I recall reading some foobar with "simple framebuffer" cropping up and > also I > found this bug in case it helps with either of your machines: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/821406 > That's not the first time CONFIG_MPILEDRIVER=y has caused issues. I just stick to CONFIG_MBULLDOZER=y on my

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg on boot - is this behind my crashes?

2022-02-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > [ 12.260700] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-5, logical block 33554416, > async page read > [ 12.262882] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-3, logical block 33554416, > async page read > Might be worth check the status of the disks with smartctl, something like; smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: script help - removing newlines

2021-12-08 Thread Adam Carter
> > Hmm, maybe: > > $ awk '/^comment "[^"]*$/ { ORS=" " } /"$/ { ORS="\n" } { print }' > yourfile.txt > Yes that works (after piping the file thru tr -d '\r' first). Thanks!

[gentoo-user] script help - removing newlines

2021-12-07 Thread Adam Carter
I have text files that are sometimes; property "something" comment "whatever" but sometimes there are newline characters in the comment field; property "something" comment "something something else a third thing" I want to replace any newlines between 'comment "' and the next '"' with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get rid of preserved libs

2021-11-21 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries > > I would appreciate any help to get rid of this message. > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sam/Portage_help/Circular_dependencies

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

2021-09-26 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 > .tar > files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need > to > compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Adam Carter
> > >> man mcelog > > 'man mcelog' + 'man mce' find nothing. does it need to be installed ? > Yep and the package is called mcelog. Did you check for any other messages before/after the mce errors? Do you also have lm-sensors installed? Running sensord? Genuine CPU issues seem pretty rare, so

Re: [gentoo-user] irqbalance

2021-09-24 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:35 PM William Kenworthy wrote: > In going down the NUMA rabbit hole, I discovered "irqbalance". Does > anyone have an opinion on its usefulness? It is in portage. > > On some multicore arm systems I am using irq affiity to steer certain > irq's to faster CPU's

Re: [gentoo-user] wine install : pango, freetype, harfbuzz circular dependencies

2021-07-19 Thread Adam Carter
> > You could try the opposite at the initial circular dependency. > > USE="-truetype" emerge -1 harfbuzz Different error, but i can't see a solution here either; media-libs/harfbuzz:0 (media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1:0/0.9.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="cairo glib graphite icu

[gentoo-user] wine install : pango, freetype, harfbuzz circular dependencies

2021-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
Similarly to another thread, trying to get wine to install is triggering this issue; * Error: circular dependencies: (media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1:0/0.9.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on (media-libs/freetype-2.10.4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime_slot_op)

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix: /etc/postfix/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases ?

2021-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
> Two options: > 1/ use dafaults, i.e. /etc/mail/aliases > 2/ use a custom location but then change postfix.service to give r/w > access to the new aliases.db location > > I'd go with option #1 if you do not have a strong preference either way. > > Agreed - will go with #1 now. Thanks for your

[gentoo-user] postfix: /etc/postfix/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases ?

2021-07-11 Thread Adam Carter
I have an old log warning I want to clean up, and am assuming that the aliases and aliases.db file would typically be in the same directory. When the postfix service starts at boot; postfix/postalias[607]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/aliases.db: Read-only file system The location is currently

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

2021-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:15 PM Wols Lists wrote: > 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? > Weird - here's my fstab and dmesg entries if you want to compare; #

Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org Fatal server error: AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch

2021-06-11 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 2:24 AM wrote: > The X server is crashing with an error: AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients > for VT switch > /home/fd/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log > > If you have recently updated the kernel, try 'emerge @x11-module-rebuild' Otherwise here's what i have for my .config for

[gentoo-user] gdm is running Xwayland, what about startx?

2021-06-08 Thread Adam Carter
I've noticed that my gdm system is running /usr/bin/Xwayland instead of /usr/bin/Xorg, so I infer that Gentoo devs, or upstream, are preferring it now. Can i try Xwayland with startx? pstree shows the execution paths as below. Inscrutable to me and interesting that they're so different. gdm:

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
> > I have no "python_target" entries anywhere under " /etc/portage/ " (apart > from > what I have to add now to get the upgrade to actually work). > > It may have been possible to use --changed-use and not add any python target entries, or, it may be that you only need a very small number of

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:29 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: > >> > >> And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed > >> certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to cert

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 6:19 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > All, > > I've got several packages complaining about "PYTHON_TARGETS" missing > "python3_8" You should add --changed-use to your emerge flags and clean any PYTHON_TARGETS cruft out of package.use. On ~arch the default python has just changed

Re: [gentoo-user] is "scp" reliable?

2021-06-01 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 2:46 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, May 29, 2021 11:04:44 PM CEST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 1:33 PM wrote: > > > > > > > Another mystery. > > > I copied the file to USB 1TB sandisk. > > > md5sum check OK same as my computer > > > > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed > certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to certify who you > are, but at the expense of probably allowing access to your > communications by "authorised parties" (such as commercial entities > purchasing access

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2021-05-08 Thread Adam Carter
> x11-libs/libvdpau > selected: 1.4 >protected: none > omitted: none > I'm guessing that would be pulled in by USE +vdpau, so if you've removed it then done an emerge with -N or -U it won't be required anymore. > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu > selected: 19.1.0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:09 PM Michael wrote: > On Friday, 30 April 2021 02:30:51 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:58 PM Kai Peter wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real &

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:58 PM Kai Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real > root cause. It hangs up totally. It seems like it was running out of > memory - but why? Hopefully somebody can give me some insight. As far I > can see right now, it

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome-shell crashing

2021-04-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:12 PM Adam Carter wrote: > Im my logs i see entries like > Traps: gnome-shell trap int3 in libglib > > Is the issue more likely to be in glib than gnome-shell? Should I mask > off the latest version and try again or is there a better approach? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

2021-04-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm having problems building rust. On systems that I setup assuming I wouldn’t need swap, I set swappiness low and add a swap file (on ssd if possible) so the bigger builds can at least finish, albeit more slowly.

[gentoo-user] Gnome-shell crashing

2021-04-29 Thread Adam Carter
Im my logs i see entries like Traps: gnome-shell trap int3 in libglib Is the issue more likely to be in glib than gnome-shell? Should I mask off the latest version and try again or is there a better approach?

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor complains of no HDMI signal on wake

2021-04-23 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:48 AM Mike Kaliman wrote: > Hello all, > > I built a desktop that dual-boots Windows and Gentoo with rEFInd and each > OS has its own hard drive. It's running an ASUS X570 motherboard along with > an Nvidia RTX 2060 Super GPU. The GPU has 1 DisplayPort, 2 HDMI ports,

Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

2021-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Ok i see 3.10 was released 2013-06-30, so looking for a cpu released the > > previous year, say > > IvyBridge, IvyBridge-IBR Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, 2012) > > > > and $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ? | grep -i ivy > > x86 IvyBridge (alias configured by machine type) > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

2021-04-14 Thread Adam Carter
> > > I tried running an old version of RHEL with an old 3.x kernel in > > VirtualBox, however, it won't run due to my hosts Ryzen CPU so I > > guess I need something that does CPU emulation. > > > > Is this likely to be achievable with qemu ? > > Yes. Look up the release date of your kernel[1]

[gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

2021-04-13 Thread Adam Carter
I tried running an old version of RHEL with an old 3.x kernel in VirtualBox, however, it won't run due to my hosts Ryzen CPU so I guess I need something that does CPU emulation. Is this likely to be achievable with qemu ?

[gentoo-user] motherboard BIOS vs CPU microcode

2021-04-12 Thread Adam Carter
Do these largely overlap? So if your motherboard manufacturer is diligent with releasing updates and you've applied them, you generally won't expect a 'microcode updated early to new patch_level' message from dmesg?

[gentoo-user] bonding round-robin for scaling bandwidth for a single flow

2021-04-10 Thread Adam Carter
I've been trying to replicate the results from; https://louwrentius.com/linux-network-interface-bonding-trunking-or-how-to-get-beyond-1-gbs.html To get over 1 Gig throughput for a single flow out of a 2x1GB bonded connection. Presumably its only client→server file transfers that are over 1GB, as

[gentoo-user] ruby and package.use

2021-02-09 Thread Adam Carter
It seems like ruby regularly wants to stuff ruby_targets_rebyNN entries into package.use on my machines - is this normal? Now that ruby3 is out it wants to add a bunch of ruby_targets_ruby30 entries to the ruby_targets_ruby27 crud that's already there.

Re: [gentoo-user] spam - different IP's

2021-02-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 6:07 PM Adam Carter wrote: > On Thursday, February 4, 2021, wrote: > >> I'm perplex with this entry in apache log. >> I'm sure it was done by same person as the timing is very sequential and >> same file-name request, but how they were able

Re: [gentoo-user] spam - different IP's

2021-02-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Thursday, February 4, 2021, wrote: > I'm perplex with this entry in apache log. > I'm sure it was done by same person as the timing is very sequential and > same file-name request, but how they were able to lunch an attack from a > different IP's different geographical locations. > Can they

Re: [gentoo-user] network transfer speed

2021-01-15 Thread Adam Carter
> On a remote network I run ethtool on both cards and I got both 1000Mb/s > speed > > As the 20 odd MB/s you're getting is above what is possible on 100M ethernet, you can rule out any ethernet interfaces at 100M. Can you describe the network between the two systems with the slow transfer? If

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

2021-01-11 Thread Adam Carter
> > When I try to use > usermod -d /mnt/home/thelma -m thelma > I get: > usermod: user thelma is currently used by process 3037 > Is 3037 an instance of bash running as thelma? If so, try logging out that user then run the usermod command as root (not thelma su'd to root)

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

2021-01-10 Thread Adam Carter
> > Can I use "nano" to edit /etc/password file > Yes, but it's generally safest to use usermod.

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

2020-12-04 Thread Adam Carter
> There seems to be some python3_6 and even python2_7 in your error > output, maybe you have set some older python targets somewhere that > you've forgotten about? > Yeah I was thinking the same. If 'grep -i python /etc/portage/*' is not empty, try making it that way. On my system with 1323

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

2020-12-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 8:06 AM tastytea wrote: > On 2020-12-03 21:33+0100 n952162 wrote: > > > I'm trying to update the gentoo system that I last updated 6 weeks > > ago, but it seems not to work. Can somebody explain to me why? > > Python 3.8 is the new default target and not all packages

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

2020-11-24 Thread Adam Carter
> 3) AMD code runs only on same or newer AMD, because it has the 3DNow! >instruction set the others lack. > FYI 3dnow and 3dnowext went away some time ago. It's not in any of the Bulldozer or Zen CPUs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2020-11-19 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 8:36 AM Steven Lembark wrote: > > Based on: > > 2020-04-22 Python 3.7 to become the default target > > I'd have thought that using: > > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7" > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7" > > I would remove those entries and try again. As

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel support for: i211 - intel network driver

2020-11-16 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 9:18 AM wrote: > I have Asus X570-pro MB with Intel I211-AT network > When I compiled into the kernel (not as module) the "IGB" network driver > but the network is not recognized. > > lsmod |grep igb is not showing anything. > Not sure how close the I211 is to the I219,

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating LibreOffice and EPYTHON

2020-10-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:23 AM Andrew Lowe wrote: > Evening all, > I'm in the middle of doing an "-NuD world" and my Libreoffice > build > has failed right at the finish line. I get: > > > * ERROR: app-office/libreoffice-6.4.7.2::gentoo failed (install phase): > * No Python

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple addresses/routes for one ethernet card possible?

2020-10-24 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 3:56 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > After an outage on VDSL last month, I got a backup 10/1 cable > subscription backup. Switching is a bit of a hassle. In addition to > swapping cables, I have to run dhcpcd as root or sudo when swithching > from VDSL to cable. Switching

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel bad scheduling from idle thread

2020-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
> > This is the first 5.4 kernel I have tried. I did a make oldconfig and > added a number of modules, but I would think the kernel would only > load the ones that are needed. I could not tell you the exact ones, > as I try to make the kernel somewhat general, so I may add things > which may not

Re: [gentoo-user] X Forwarding from virtual host

2020-10-15 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 1:20 PM Dan Egli wrote: > Okay, this is I HOPE a simple enough question. I have a virtual server > running on my Win10 Host (not my ideal O/S!) that has a full X environment > on it. I usually connect via Putty(ssh) using VirtualBox's Host Only > network. That's great for

Re: [gentoo-user] python variables

2020-10-02 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 9:50 AM William Kenworthy wrote: > Hi, I am still having problems with the python settings. There a lot of > articals online for python on Gentoo but they all seem to miss a simple > point: a list of what the current default should be: > > should there be nothing in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors in nonexistent partitions

2020-09-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:17 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning all, > > My ~amd64 system uses partitions 1 to 18 on /dev/nvme0n1, and it has two > SATA > disks as well, for various purposes. Today, after I'd taken the system > down > for its weekly backup (I tar all the partitions to a USB

Re: [gentoo-user] which filesystem is best for raid 0?

2020-08-12 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:29 AM Grant Taylor < gtay...@gentoo.tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 8/12/20 11:53 AM, Никита Степанов wrote: > > which filesystem is best for raid 0? > Performance wise, ext4 and XFS lead most benchmarks for non-raid. XFS seems best for raid1, so I imagine either of

[gentoo-user] hplip network scanning port

2020-07-31 Thread Adam Carter
I used to be able to scan on my gentoo box from an HP officejet pro on the network. This is now failing and i can see that the gentoo box is attempting to connect to TCP/6566 on the HP, but the HP is not listening on that port. Test command is; hp-scan -dhpaio:/net/HP_Officejet_Pro_8620?ip= Is

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-29 Thread Adam Carter
> > > So should I run something like: date ; time > 100%CPU for a minute> ; date ? > > No, date will pull from your RTC, which is usually kept up to date with an > asynchronous > counter. > > First check GNU top(1) and look in the %Cpu line for "st." That is % CPU > time stolen. If it is >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
> > Compare realtime it to measured CPU time. If one realtime second is > shorter than a > CPU second then you know the host is pausing your VM. There are other ways > to > check, but this should always work if you can contact an asynchronous time > standard. > You may need to average the time

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:23:46PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > > Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools > > because its an 'appliance', but it does allow shell access. I assume CPU > &

[gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Adam Carter
Having performance issues on a linux vmware guest that doesnt run vmtools because its an 'appliance', but it does allow shell access. I assume CPU utilisation shown by top etc is the utilisation of the vCPUs. Is there any way to discover or infer host CPU issues?

Re: [gentoo-user] problem getting wifi card to route to internet

2020-07-26 Thread Adam Carter
> > Have you set the default route and enabled ip forwarding? > > > > Also you don’t need to add a route for connected interfaces > Thanks for your quick response. Packet forwarding is enabled and I am > using shorewall to have normal firewall settings. > Ok so can the WLAN clients ping the

Re: [gentoo-user] problem getting wifi card to route to internet

2020-07-25 Thread Adam Carter
On Saturday, July 25, 2020, John Covici wrote: > Hi. This is not strictly a gentoo problem, but I would like advise > from people on how to get my wifi card to see the internet. > > On my new box I have the following card: > 00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9560 >

Re: [gentoo-user] repoint virtual/rust to rust instead of rust-bin

2020-07-22 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 5:39 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > Have you tried adding --tree to your emerge command? >> >> > Yes, and both the dev-lang and virtual were both just leaves. Checked the > world file and it has; > dev-lang/rust > virtual/rust > > Should it

Re: [gentoo-user] repoint virtual/rust to rust instead of rust-bin

2020-07-22 Thread Adam Carter
> Have you tried adding --tree to your emerge command? > > Yes, and both the dev-lang and virtual were both just leaves. Checked the world file and it has; dev-lang/rust virtual/rust Should it be just the virtual?

Re: [gentoo-user] repoint virtual/rust to rust instead of rust-bin

2020-07-22 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 6:29 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You have emerged rust-145 from testing but portage wants to install > virtual/rust-1.44.1 from stable. This looks like a keywording issue. > > Are you running stable or testing? Do you have anything rust-related in >

[gentoo-user] repoint virtual/rust to rust instead of rust-bin

2020-07-21 Thread Adam Carter
I've unmerged rust-bin, emerged rust (v1,45), then re-emerged virtual/rust but if i run a world update it still wants to pull rust-bin back in; # emerge -avuD --tree world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD ]

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging pycairo

2020-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 2:36 PM Philip Webb wrote: > 200713 Adam Carter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:32 AM Philip Webb > wrote: > >> root:543 ~> emerge -pv pycairo > ... > >> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging pycairo

2020-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 5:32 AM Philip Webb wrote: > this is the output : > > root:543 ~> emerge -pv pycairo > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R] dev-python/pycairo-1.18.2::gentoo USE="-doc -examples > -test" >

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD or MoBo playing up?

2020-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 8:48 AM Michael wrote: > It started thus: > > Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x2 SErr > 0x0 > action 0x6 frozen > Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED > Jun 18 17:52:45 asus kernel: ata1.00: cmd >

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone willing to share a kernel .config file?

2020-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 7:45 AM Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > I have an AMD Ryzen 7 2700 CPU sitting in a Gigabyte X470 Aurus > Ultra > Gaming motherboard with 64GB of RAM and an nVidia graphics card. For > some reason I've never been happy with the kernels config. > Can you post your

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: computer won't shut down [UPDATE]

2020-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
> > Can someone explain how the amdgpu.dc=1 parameter gets passed to grub? > > Thanks in advance. > Is it in /etc/default/grub's GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=? If the question is how it got there, maybe the timestamp on the file offers a hint?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-10 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:40 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-06-10, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > I had it working in Firefox. > > firfox or firefox-bin? > Source built firefox works for me. FWIW i build with USE +hwaccel +lto which seem to consistently work. pgo works sometimes, then doesnt.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > On my boxes with swap files, kernel 5.7.0 barfs; > > # file /swapfile > /swapfile: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size > 2097151 pages, no label > # swapon -a > swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument > > I havent looked into it yet as they're rarely used at

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:24 AM wrote: > When I try to boot I'm getting an error: > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= > option to kernel." > > I am running very low on disk space, I think. > I've tried to boot strap the system and remove some files but boot

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:21 AM Ashley Dixon wrote: > Hi gentoo-user, > > I'm attempting to configure a mid-range video card: the Radeon R7 370. > Running > on the Pitcairn chipset and a member of the Southern Islands family, > I am > surprised at the complexity of setting up the Radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-30 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:24 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > hi - any nice way to have compression at the file > system level, without using zfs? perhaps some > kind of device mapper that compresses data? > > i find file system compression to speed up >

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/meminfo vs lshw -c memory

2020-04-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM madscientistatlarge < madscientistatla...@protonmail.com> wrote: > If the bios sees it, an lshw sees it it's not the ram, I seriously doubt > new ram would help. I've seen a failing power supply make ram look flaky > before, possibly the drive activity during

[gentoo-user] /proc/meminfo vs lshw -c memory

2020-04-17 Thread Adam Carter
The BIOS and lshw -c memory shows 2x8Gig but the OS (/proc/meminfo) only shows 8Gig. I've re-seated the RAM, tried different slots, booted from CD, but no change. Last time i looked the OS showed 16Gig. Is there anything else i can try or is it new RAM time?

[gentoo-user] Warning: libuv-1.36.0 breaks bind

2020-04-16 Thread Adam Carter
For me at least. Going back to 1.35 makes bind work again. Error looks like Apr 16 15:48:51 proxy named[944]: netmgr.c:1000: REQUIRE(worker->recvbuf_inuse) failed, back trace Apr 16 15:48:51 proxy named[944]: #0 0x61943fe4dc20 in ?? Apr 16 15:48:51 proxy named[944]: #1 0x70cde3c7cf4c in ?? Apr 16

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:48 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: > > > > > > ## arecord -l > > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices > > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic Analog] > > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > > Subdevice

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

2020-04-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > > > BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for > > rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme > > limitations. There's not really any reason to remove this, but if you > > insist... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-02 Thread Adam Carter
> > 3900X@2133 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 11904 2858 > 3900X@3200 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 15213 3032 > > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. Do > you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go from > BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

2020-04-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: > 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in 3.00 > seconds = 531.46 MB/sec > 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in 3.00 > seconds = 510.60 MB/sec > 120 GB Sandisk from 2017: Timing buffered disk

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