Re: [gentoo-user] How to Fix Extraoardinarily Loud Alsa?

Am 2016-11-01 14:55, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak: I finally got the base install of Gentoo done, but I've come across a really interesting probleing. After installing Alsa and enabling its daemon, I had copied the asound.conf from the distro I was using on to the system. Unfortunately, this give the

Re: [gentoo-user] stop an emerge (compilation), halt the PC, boot and continue the emerge

Zitat von Hogren : But, when I boot up again the PC and I «emerge --resume», it restart the compilation process. Is there a way to not restart the compilation process ? Take a look at Tux on Ice, this should do the trick for you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fileserver with Raid + Crypto + BtrFS

Am 11.11.2015 um 18:09 schrieb Ralf: Besides that I would have to live-migrate the Raid10 as I don't have any spare hdd to cache the data. So I would have to degrade my Raid10. Is it possible to create a degraded Btrfs? You can create your shiny, new Btrfs on one device only first and then

Re: [gentoo-user] bcachefs

Zitat von James : Hello, Anyone tested/ deployed bcachefs on gentoo yet? Phorononix already ran some benchmarks on it. As to be expected, there's of course much work left to do. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=bcache-fs-linux=1

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS server packages

Zitat von "J. Roeleveld" : As it is related to this thread, which server would people recommend when the DNS records are to be found in a database? I'd recommend PowerDNS, which has also an ebuild in the official portage tree since ages. It has several, mature web

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating dependencies...: Any way to make it faster?

Am 24.01.2015 um 05:20 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Is there any way to make it faster or (in other words): Are there different ways to Calculating dependencies... and have only chossen the slowest one...? What can I do to spped it up? Portage is written in Python, normally running on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

Am 22.01.2015 um 19:06 schrieb Tom H: Sure. My point was that anyone can claim that systemd is (un)popular in the embedded space. I don't know if it is popular; in embedded systems though the last thing you need are fast moving targets IMHO, you want to use proven, reliable tools. If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

Zitat von Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com: Lennart claims that the embedded world loves systemd. I suspect that, as in other corners of the Linux world, there are lovers and haters of systemd. Embedded systems also quite often means low on resources, CPU power, memory, space. If you are using

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

Am 19.01.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? Content is mostly VM images. sdc and sdd are 2TB WD greens, and sda is a 2TB WD red. Question: was

Re: [gentoo-user] Get off my lawn?

Am 17.01.2015 um 00:25 schrieb Paul B. Henson: http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ So it seems the reason (in Lennart Poettering's imagination at least) that Gentoo hasn't embraced systemd as our default init system is because we're all old and conservative? Not like those

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs fails to balance

Zitat von Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au: Can someone suggest what is causing a balance on this raid 1, 3 disk volume to successfully complete but leave the data unevenly distributed? Content is mostly VM images. On which kernel version are you?

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

Am 01.01.2015 um 18:01 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: I was wondering if there was any harm in disabling the NSA SELinux support in my gentoo-sources based kernel. It depends on your usage case (desktop or server) and grade of personal paranoia. I know a few administrators how think that

Re: [gentoo-user] samba and window 7 NTFS

Am 06.12.2014 um 00:16 schrieb Mick: Same opinoin here. The in-kernel driver is only good for reading files and directories. If anything else is needed use ntfs3g. This is right, ntfs-3g is a safe way of accessing NTFS from Linux. Actually, while there is a NTFS-kernel driver, this driver

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation

Am 04.12.2014 um 17:30 schrieb Michael Vetter: Yes, thats what I want to achive. The sad thing about hibernation is, that it has always kinda been some kind of lackluster in the kernel and quite disappointing. It is a kind of area which does not get much love in the kernel for at least over

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation

Am 03.12.2014 um 11:32 schrieb Michael Vetter: However when I close my notebook's lid (I configured xfce4-power-manager to switch into hibernation in this case) it shuts down, but when i press the start button, it just does a normal restart. Do you want to configure a) simply hibernation,

Re: [gentoo-user] virus/malware scanner for linux

Am 02.12.2014 um 06:24 schrieb Joseph: I know there are some command line virus/malware scanners for Linux? It has been long time ago since I run any of them, that I forgot their names :-/ There's Maldet, Linux Malware Detect. https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

Am 01.12.2014 um 09:22 schrieb Pandu Poluan: Actually, that's my point by saying offer: Rather than letting them build eudev from scratch, let's work together on the eudev we have, promote it to something distro-neutral, then let Gentoo and Devuan (and whatever other distros) derive from that

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

Am , schrieb Bill Kenworthy: I read Veteran Unix Admins collective as a category that old style admin types fall into - the background being that systemd is essentially the old guard, do things based on experience and good practice vs the new guard whose use case is throw away vm's that are

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

Am 30.11.2014 um 12:44 schrieb Philip Webb: A rather shrewd analysis ; the name 'Devuan' adds to my suspicions. Well, the people behind it claim to be mostly from Italy and this should be pronounced like DevOne. People so far who have published their names do include: - Franco Lanza (who

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

Am 30.11.2014 um 17:39 schrieb Daniel Frey: systemd most certainly is monolithic as well as modular. You can't run journald without systemd and you most certainly can't replace journald with a third party binary. IMHO this type of discussion leads to nowhere. Of course you can view it like

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

Am 29.11.2014 um 11:11 schrieb Pandu Poluan: What do you think, people? Shouldn't we offer them our eudev project to assist? Since Eudev has always been opensource under the GPLv2, like udev too, there's no need to /offer/ it. If they choose to use it, they can use it, no offer/questions

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

Am 27.11.2014 um 16:22 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: And Sabayon uses systemd, of course. Holy moly... never noticed that this happened.

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

Am 26.11.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Walter Dnes: I've been running ICEWM for over 4 years, and blackbox for a few years before that. What desktop interface change? :) Switching to ratpoison or i3wm, of course. :

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

Am 25.11.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Gevisz: It usually took me from 10 to 20 minutes to download my daily updates in Ubuntu. For big packages - about 40 minutes or even more. That's the time saving aspect lol :) Not lol, it is like I told you. Binary distributions are a big, big time saver

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

Am 21.11.2014 um 18:36 schrieb Philip Webb: Adoption of Systemd by other major distros sb good for Gentoo. Disgruntled Debians, Fedoras, Archies (IIRC they've also adopted it) will have a choice of giving in or moving to Slackware or Gentoo. Well, Gentoo is for sure quite a different beast

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

Am 24.11.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Gevisz: I switched from Ubuntu 10.04 to Gentoo just because it forced closing window button x to the upper-left corner of the window in Unity of Ubuntu 12.04 while I used to look for it in the upper-right corner. :) So, I see no reason that those that hate

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

Am 21.11.2014 um 08:17 schrieb Paige Thompson: I just read an article that says systemd is taking over linux and linux is not linux anymore: http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/11/20/systemd-redux/ I kinda have to agree which is partially why I'm not using it. Will Gentoo have any plans of forcing

Re: [gentoo-user] bloated by gcc

Am 28.09.2014 10:44, schrieb Jorge Almeida: I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are unaccountably large. Really? Who cares. Storage is so cheap nowadays, that that kind of bloat simply doesn't matter on normal deskop computers anymore. Embedded systems though are

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

Am 17.09.2014 20:36, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Now you use this to advertise for systemd? Systemd fanbois are becoming more and more desperate. Gentoo is still all about choice, right? And we still have that choice. If you dislike Systemd, then just don't use it. Period. Contrary to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

Am 26.07.2014 20:23, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: but you will care when your kernel writes the next file right over the partition boundary. That's why I do have backups of all my relevant data on an external storage medium.

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all time favorite apps, is no more. Well, considering the fact that Linux comes with its own bunch of encrytion

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

Am 03.06.2014 12:00, schrieb Tanstaafl: So no loss at all if TrueCrypt would really cease to exist. Which totally misses the point of *how* it happened. How it happened is strange and you can make many theories about it. The more interesting question about it for sure is: why did many

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

Am 03.06.2014 22:14, schrieb Alan McKinnon: This whole systemd thing looks awfully like the switch from a hosts file to DNS so many years ago. Not really. What many people bothers about systemd is that it is getting more and more a) a hard dependancy for software projects, e.g. like GNOME,

Re: [gentoo-user] about to give up on systemd and gnome

Am 23.05.2014 21:50, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: I am open to suggestions here, and I have a log segment I can put somewhere to illustrage the oh no problem, but I am getting tired of the mess and if I can find something which works with orca I will do that instead. Gentoo is all about

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

Am 19.05.2014 13:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick: The page you linked to does not actually state that. There are plenty of hints and sideways references but little concrete information about what is safe with the current release - hence my question. Oh it does, just take a look at that section:

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs and sparse VM image files

Am 18.05.2014 14:28, schrieb Neil Bothwick: I'm confused about the desirability of keeping VM image files, usually space qcow files, on a btrfs volume. I have read the advice about using chattr +C on the subvolume, but are there any other gotchas? The btrfs wiki says in one place that using

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Mail with Procmail and Thunderbird (or similar)

Am 28.03.2014 11:40, schrieb wraeth: My question is: does anyone know how I can configure either Procmail to deliver messages in a format Thunderbird will understand; or how I can configure Thunderbird to be a little bit more maildir compliant? Well, why don't you just install a local

[gentoo-user] Pointers on how to speed up the boot process with systemd

Greetings fellow Gentooistas, I am looking for input on how to speed up my boot process with systemd on Gentoo. First of one word to systemd: Gentoo is about choice, and I choose to take a deeper look into systemd out of curiosity, so please respect that and don't turn it into another kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Pointers on how to speed up the boot process with systemd

Am 09.03.2014 18:39, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Something is wrong here; unless you are booting a 386 machine, there is no way it should take a minute and a half to boot. And even with a 386 I would be suspicious. No, actually it is an Intel i5-4670K with 8 GB of RAM. Something is

Re: [gentoo-user] Pointers on how to speed up the boot process with systemd

Am 09.03.2014 18:56, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: OK, this is actually normal. Do you realize that it's completely different from the first one you posted? Yes, I do though I still wonder what changed, but I do not complain. Getting less than 12 seconds will be difficult, specially on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

Zitat von Peter Weilbacher newss...@weilbacher.org: Don't have Mate, but I can otherwise confirm this behavior: xfce terminal works, gnome-terminal does weird things. One more thing that happens to me is that apparently gnome-terminal does not notify console apps of new window size. For me

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

Zitat von Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: I have found this one to be the most stable driver. x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-304.116 I am going to give it a shot when I am back home on my own computer.

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

Am 25.11.2013 15:15, schrieb Randy Barlow: Did you find out what was causing this issue? I've been experiencing it as well in my Gnome 2 system (gnome-terminal). I haven't put much effort into figuring out what is happening, but I'm curious now that I know it has affected someone else as well.

[gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

Greetings, I've got a strange behaviour since a couple of weeks. When working under X11 in a terminal and I type exit in the shell, the terminal does not close itself anymore. Already changed the shell - no change at all. Also does Ctrl+Z not work anymore, to bring the process running in

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals not closing after exit anymore

If you can see -- for example -- ^E when pressing CTRL-E, then the control codes are received by the shell/terminal, therefore keyboard related things are not to blame. Well yes this works. If so check the shell init files for remapping the keycodes. Maybe revdep rebuild will show a library,

[gentoo-user] Btrfs: how to fix slow sequential write performance?

Greetings fellow Gentooistas, at the moment I am doing some testing and evaluating of Btrfs on my own system. Why? Just because I can and I am curious about it. Because I am doing that for evaluation purpose please don't give advise like go ZFS or something like that, thank you. Kernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS

Am 17.09.2013 09:20, schrieb Grant: Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it considered suitable for a high-performance server? A high performance server for what? But you've already given yourself the answer: if high performance is what you are aiming for it

Re: [gentoo-user] Deficient Gnome Window Frames

Am 06.09.2013 21:47, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:28 PM, gevisz gev...@gmail.com wrote: But I have not found MATE in portage... I see there is a mate overlay available in layman layman -a mate GNOME 2.X is been dead since a few years. They went to develop that ugly beast

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

Am 05.09.2013 05:04, schrieb James: Do you want to use a software raid of hardware raid? File system that is best for a Raid 1 workstation? Well, of course only file systems being supported by the rescue system of your hosting provider. File system that is best for a Raid 1 (casual

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

Am 02.09.2013 10:47, schrieb Joerg Schilling: Solaris is dynamic from the beginning: Well in my point of view it boils down to that: someone wants to use ZFS on Linux. Fine. This means you've got to be a good citizen and obey its license, of course. It is for those legal reasons that ZFS

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent Computers ship at last with 4 GB so what the Heck. That aside, jitsi runs on Java and the Java vm is not really leightweight either. the the.gu...@mail.ru schrieb: My granny never had these problems, using Skype

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

. But that is a Very Different kind of issue Indeed. Am 23.08.2013 12:50 schrieb the the.gu...@mail.ru: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/13 14:39, Marc Stürmer wrote: Well... Nowadays RAM is so cheap that this is really no issue. Most recent Computers ship at last with 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

Am 23.08.2013 15:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon: tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' I think your keyboard is broken. Your Shift key is doing odd things and typing CAPS when you obviously didn't intend More like of my virtual keyboard on my smartphone, anyways... nice to be back on my real keyboard once more again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

Am 23.08.2013 12:50, schrieb the: Does that mean that I should buy hardware to match software requirements? Do you really want to tell me that you are still working on a Pentium 133 with maybe 64 MB of RAM? I mean it has always been like that: people buy indeed hardware to match software

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

Am 20.08.2013 17:12, schrieb Randy Westlund: For a multitude of reasons, I'd like to get rid of skype. I've heard several people mention jitsi, but was surprised to find that it's not in the portage tree. Well, there's always been something being called a Skype killer over the last few

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

Am 22.08.2013 17:58, schrieb hasufell: You probably missed those hundreds of bugs we devs and also users were faced with, including linkage against non-existing sonames, random crashes and breakage when the binary is stripped. So this is somewhat wrong information. It's like saying windows

Re: [gentoo-user] Jitsi or Other Skype Alternative

Am 22.08.2013 18:08, schrieb hasufell: I was arguing from both sides. It is buggy, crashes a lot, consumes a lot of ressources and is able to slow down your whole desktop, mess with audio settings and whatnot. Well, your opinion. In my opinion the ease of use out of the box for the end user

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

Why is was forked you ask? Because of the predictable Name stuff and some People disliked the attitude of the udev programmer which was either my way or the high way. aside choice is always Good to have so in the end IT was bound to happen sooner or later and is a Good thing to have.

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

Am 01.08.2013 18:28, schrieb Tanstaafl: I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to eudev. I've googled until my fingers are blue, but cannot for the life of me find any explicit instructions for *how* to switch from

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from old udev to eudev

Am 01.08.2013 19:16, schrieb Marc Stürmer: net.ifnames=0 Worked like a charm to me. Forgot to mention the more thorough documentation though, so here it is: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade You

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp-daemons

Am 03.04.2013 01:36, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I always used net-misc/ntp for syncing time. Now I found net-misc/chrony and set it up looks good so far. Any opinions and experiences on the various ways of getting THE TIME? Just two different hammers for the same nail. Another

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

Am 14.03.2013 09:15, schrieb Dale: I was wondering. Has anyone ever seen where a test as been done to compare the speed of Gentoo with other distros? Maybe Gentoo compared to Redhat, Mandrake, Ubuntu and such? Running Gentoo is not a choice about raw _speed_. I mean, even if you claim that

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

Am 28.12.2012 01:02, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I *liked* the old way ... is there any explanation why removing this improves things? How is it supposed to work now? That's the sane question to ask, unfortunately you won't get a real answer from the GNOME developers themselves. They are

Re: [gentoo-user] Good/better/best filesystem for large, static video library?

2012/12/25 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com: Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get written once and don't change or get