Re: [gentoo-user] Weird XFS problem

2012-02-26 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/25/2012 06:05 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 25, 2012 10:34 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com mailto:cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, I'm using XFS on /home and facing a strange issue. When I add acl to the mount options in /etc/fstab, the FS fails to mount during boot

[gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel went as follows: eselect kernel set {new kernel} cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig and then there was a totally clean config which I would then customize for the specific setup. On one box I am currently

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/23/2012 10:25 AM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 23 Feb 2012 08:10:56 Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Usually on gentoo when gentoo-sources gets updated, updating the kernel went as follows: eselect kernel set {new kernel} cd /usr/src/linux make menuconfig and then there was a totally

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: The only thing I can currently think of is maybe the kernel config files in /boot? I'd say it's more likely to be getting it from /proc/config.gz. But why start with a clean config each

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED gentoo-sources menuconfig feature/weirdness

2012-02-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:48:35 +0200 Coert Waagmeesterlgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: On 02/23/2012 11:17 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:51:43 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: The only thing I can currently think of is maybe

[gentoo-user] mixing x86 and amd64 distcc?

2012-02-16 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Can amd64 distcc compile for a gentoo x86 setup? Or do I need a 32bit chroot? Regards, Coert Waagmeester

[gentoo-user] LIRC problem

2011-06-12 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Tried to setup LIRC. I built my own serial receiver for serial, and it works. I get a /dev/lirc0 and mode2 generates output on keypresses. Currently I am using a One for All URC 7130 When I run irrecord it takes me through two phases of pressing keys, and then it asks me for only the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: system rescue usb stick

2011-05-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 05/22/2011 01:36 PM, Mick wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2011 23:17:30 walt wrote: On 05/20/2011 04:22 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] system rescue usb stick

2011-05-20 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 05/19/2011 04:12 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, Is SystemRescueCd still a good system rescue tool? The web site has not been updated for over 1 year. Thanks for other suggestions. -- Valmor +1 I use it for all my gentoo installations as well. Have even removed windows

Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] media center with gentoo

2011-05-16 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 05/14/2011 08:42 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Building myself a new media center setup. I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def video. Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place. Normal Gentoo install. How can I get X

[gentoo-user] media center with gentoo

2011-05-14 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Building myself a new media center setup. I used to have an old xbox with xbmc. But the CPU is to slow for hi-def video. Now I have a normal PC with keyboard and mouse in its place. Normal Gentoo install. How can I get X to start up without login straight into XBMC? Which

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED portage Digest verification failed

2011-04-23 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 04/23/2011 02:50 AM, Mark Shields wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello Dale, Managed to fix it. I downloaded a new portage snapshot, extracted it, and used

[gentoo-user] portage Digest verification failed

2011-04-21 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Since yesterday, when I try to update my gentoo box, certain ebuilds give me the following error: Fetching (15 of 22) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.14-r6 !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /mnt/data/portage/media-libs/libsdl/libsdl-1.2.14-r6.ebuild !!! Reason: Filesize does not match

Re: [gentoo-user] portage Digest verification failed

2011-04-21 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 04/21/2011 08:26 AM, Dale wrote: Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Since yesterday, when I try to update my gentoo box, certain ebuilds give me the following error: Fetching (15 of 22) media-libs/libsdl-1.2.14-r6 !!! Digest verification failed: !!! /mnt/data/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED hdparm and write caching

2011-03-29 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On 03/28/2011 10:35 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 28 March 2011 09:11:51 Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Running a box with 2x1TB software raid disks. A while back I read up about disk write caching and it's pros/cons. I then decided to disable it on my box. Edited /etc/conf.d/hdparm

[gentoo-user] kvm and libvirt

2011-03-29 Thread Coert Waagmeester
with libvirt, and I would like to know if anyone else here uses the combination of kvm and libvirt? What is the most dynamic way of automatically setting up virtual networks per VM? Should I use qemu-ifup? I do not use routed or NATted virtual nets. only bridging. Kind regards, Coert Waagmeester

[gentoo-user] hdparm and write caching

2011-03-28 Thread Coert Waagmeester
a cron job that checks every 10 minutes and turns it off if it is enabled. But that feels like a somewhat ugly solution... Kind regards, Coert Waagmeester

[gentoo-user] hardened gentoo and distcc

2011-03-24 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Only just started playing with hardened gentoo. I have a few normal gentoo amd64 machines already running. Can I add those to the distcc config for the hardened box? Or are there indeed special things with the compiler on hardened gentoo? Regards, Coert

[gentoo-user] distcc with a no-multilib server

2011-03-04 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, I am doing a fresh install for a new machine with the help of distcc. 3 64bit machines with one one them having a no-multilib installation. It is indeed impossible to compile 32bit binaries on that machine. Does this matter in my amd64 distcc setup? Or will the job fail, and distcc

[gentoo-user] intermittent ALSA error

2010-11-12 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Managed to set my self up with an awesome KDE desktop. there is only one problem that only happens occasionally. When I queue a few music videos in vlc and it goes from one to next, only sometimes it comes with an ALSA error: ALSA version problem: VLC failed to re-initialize

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-11 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: My setup is one 32bit pc with gentoo and another 64bit pc with gentoo I managed to get this going on the 64bit with a 32-bit chroot, distcc, and crosstools Why do you need an 32bit chroot if you're going to use

[gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, I see the gns3 overlay link is broken http://code.gns3.net/gns3-overlay/file/ec6bc595d263/gns3-overlay-docs.txt Do any of you use gns3? what is the recommended way of installing it on gentoo? Regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:52:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: My bad, I found it after some more googling in the zugaina overlay. Eix is able to search overlays, installed and otherwise, for packages. In this case it shows that sunrise has a newer version that zuigana

Re: [gentoo-user] GNS3 gentoo overlay SOLVED

2010-11-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, I see the gns3 overlay link is broken http://code.gns3.net/gns3-overlay/file/ec6bc595d263/gns3-overlay-docs.txt Do any of you use gns3? what is the recommended way of installing it on gentoo? Regards, Coert Waagmeester My bad, I found it after some

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread Coert Waagmeester
: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1chap=2 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/distcc.xml http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?part=1chap=2 Regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Coert Waagmeester
and my own kernel. Make sure to change that in your /etc/fstab as well. Dont know if this is always the case though. Regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel panic on manually built kernel

2010-11-08 Thread Coert Waagmeester
dhk wrote: On 11/08/2010 05:28 AM, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 04 November 2010, dhk wrote: I've always used the genkernel, but now am trying to make a manual one. I think the kernel is alright since all the default setting seemed reasonable and the build

[gentoo-user] local USE flags and ufed

2010-11-03 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Just installed ufed. handy. I see that ufed places local USE flags with global flags in /etc/make.conf Is this normal/does it matter? I always set local flags in /etc/portage/package.use as I read in the Handbook Regards, Coert

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
-amd64-faq.xml#cflags I can make it: -O2 -march=core2 -pipe Is this entirely necessary? Will it cause a big improvement? If I do change, how do I recompile everything? (like --newuse for USE changes?) Thank you, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] world symlinking

2010-11-02 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Gary Golden wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2010/11/2 Gary Golden m...@garygolden.me: Hi, list. I keep changes of my /etc with git and I would like to include /var/lib/portage/world file into the repository. Can I safely do: mv /var/lib/portage/world /etc/portage ln -s

[gentoo-user] distcc and USE flags

2010-10-13 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Still new to gentoo. I use RHEL a lot. If I want to set up an x86 distcc solution, do the USE flags need to be the same on all machines? Trying to setup/compile all desktop apps on one machine with two assisting in compilation. Regards, Coert Waagmeester