[gentoo-user] Re: Easy (cough) way to build earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel?

2015-04-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
=1.13view=markup -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Easy (cough) way to build earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel?

2015-03-31 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
the patches you want to test from the patchsets manually. I can see some nfs suspend patches here... So that could be culprit! [1]http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/trunk/3.18/1008_linux-3.18 .9.patch Perhaps, yes. You'll have to make your checks. ,-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Easy (cough) way to build earlier gentoo-sources 3.18.x kernel?

2015-03-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
efforts are made to avoid including intrusive patches. http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches/about.htm http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches ,-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. The scripts themselves are distribution agnostic. E.g. my ipfilter service only used $IPTABLES. The only thing to update are the service files for openrc, systemd, upstart, whatever. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

2015-03-05 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
with tc, advanced firewall with scripted iptables rules, ethernet cards controlled with ethtool (I could fix speed/duplex for incompatible network hardware), ssh, etc). While there is no wifi I found this MUCH better than WRT54GL, for example. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: DKIM Re:[gentoo-user] opengl: missing symlink target for header

2015-02-14 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:24:26PM -0200, Urs Schütz wrote: On 02/13/15 16:19, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: Hi guys, If you have mesa and eselect-opengl-1.3.X installed, could you please tell me if the symlink /usr/include/GL/glext.h is broken for you? Thanks, Valid symlink here

[gentoo-user] opengl: missing symlink target for header

2015-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
Hi guys, If you have mesa and eselect-opengl-1.3.X installed, could you please tell me if the symlink /usr/include/GL/glext.h is broken for you? Thanks, -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone familiar with virt-manager?

2015-02-11 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 08:14:52AM -0800, walt wrote: On 02/11/2015 03:38 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 04:56:13PM -0800, walt wrote: Did you check the devices? I haven't yet figured out how to display the devices with virsh. I'm still experimenting :) virsh edit

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone familiar with virt-manager?

2015-02-11 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
have a recent declared ABI. Here it is pc-1.1, hvm: os type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.1'hvm/type ... /os -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone familiar with virt-manager?

2015-02-10 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
='9216' heads='1'/ address type='pci' domain='0x' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/ /video I had a winXP with such configuration, AFAIR. Be care with the bus and slot options to not take anything already assigned. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-29 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
to cancel other download methods anyway. Of course. This is not going to be a requirement. Non-developers should stick with rsync. No one meant to replace rsync with Git. It is about replacing CVS with Git. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

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

2014-11-27 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:46:06PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: It sounds really cool Sabayon, I should probably try it one of these days. I'd say it's my favorite distro. Sadly, equo still doesn't know how to depclean. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
is handled? Point to another one. So, is it about overlays? No. I'd say overlays are some kind of poor pointers for many reasons. Hence, why not adding the pointers we are all missing and rethinking the other pointers? -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
dependency tree with their own ebuilds. That sucks. Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software to work and update installed libraries to match the requirements. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

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

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
, and as such OpenRC is and will be 100% fully supported. With that in mind, it is also 100% on the *systemd proponents* to make sure that *systemd* is 'fully supported' as an *alternate* init system. You're wrong. At first, Gentoo does with what software maintainers offer. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
not add paths to the tree. It only validates or invalidates paths. And if time for dependency resolution would become a real problem, there are ways to solve that. One could be making pre-calcultated caches of parts of tree/paths. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 02:30:12PM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: Portage should support a way to expose ALL the conditions for a software to work and update installed libraries to match the requirements

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: which works so well with different useflags. Yes, things need improvements. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

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

2014-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
, sir. Please, stop feeding that troll! -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-03-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
and the persons involved in a discussion. You won't remove this from my education and local policies instored by legitimate (or not) policymakers won't change my practice and expectation. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-03-25 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
almost everybody expects on technical mailing lists. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-03-25 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. I just read the last message from you Tom. Good bye. Heh. Blacklisting just make things even worse because you won't blacklist other contributors responding to Tom. So, you'll have broken and partial threads. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
it doesn't install anything. I've no idea; I've never used Sabayon, although I'm interested in trying it. BTW, I'm pretty sure Fabio (cc'ed) will be fine to explain how he implemented the eselect init command and the whole magic behind it. ,-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: technical review of systemd

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
more homework, again. Didn't expect things have changed that much in a few time. :-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
they are ridiculously insignificant in the wild. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
on demand, Gentoo does not make things better in this area, either. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. My point is that Gentoo provides native techniques to raise the attack cost. That's all. And I'm afraid. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-26 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 26/02/14, hasufell wrote: I wasn't only talking about modules and yes... loading them on demand actually proves my point. No. We are talking about servers. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-25 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
is not, really) part; if you set the USE flags yourself or via a profile, or an eselect module, I don't think the difference matters at all. ... but I have no idea how it is done. That's why I asked what packages would require a reinstall (got no precise answer for now). -- Nicolas

[gentoo-user] Re: technical review of systemd

2014-02-25 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
network support for advanced configurations whitout requiring to write yet another tool. The thing is that I would expect systemd to handle the whole thing on its own (with the help of iproute2) so that services have nice grain-level dependencies. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-20 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
say what is the true impact of use flags on security or stability compared to any widely-used pre-compiled distribution. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-20 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
solution requires per-daemon extraction rules and have to be maintained over time. So, postponed to errors. Definetly not a 5-minutes job. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Fwd:How about the gentoo server or cluster in production environment?

2014-02-20 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
few security issues by compiling less code is possible, believing that non-standard binaries (in the sense of compiled for with local compilation flags) gives more security is a dangerous dream. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-18 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 17/02/14, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: It depends; right now you can't switch back and forth between OpenRC and systemd without reemerging some stuff. Interesting. Didn't know that. What packages need to be recompiled? BTW, respect for your patience in this thread! -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
way. I'll stop wasting time and follow your suggestion of installing on a single disk first, before I mirror it thereafter. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: [O/T] RAID help - now won't boot

2013-10-21 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
-- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID help

2013-10-16 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
), or because I need to have the setup more flexible. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: RAID help

2013-10-16 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 08:10:40PM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:42:18PM +0100, Mick wrote: mdadm --create --auto=mdp --verbose /dev/md_d0 --level=mirror --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb which is thereafter partitioned with fdisk. This is the one I

[gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-11 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
). -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-09 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
on this hardware ... I would think about a kernel bug first and try with a much lower version. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-10-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
... This is a 24-core-system ... it shouldn't even blink ... If you are sure the load don't come from userland (htop?), I would think about reporting a kernel bug. This might be an issue with the NIC driver. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
within minutes. Let's say ~50 MB/s in the start and then down to maybe 2 or so. That is way from the expected throughput with such new hardware. You should give details of the tests. It looks like a hard disk write speed bottleneck. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Slow network transfers ... lost interrupts because of clocksource?

2013-09-27 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 27/09/13, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 27.09.2013 15:02, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: You should give details of the tests. It looks like a hard disk write speed bottleneck. I will get access again on monday. That's a hardware RAID-10 on 6 SAS disks ... that should be fast enough

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

2013-09-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 04/09/13, Joerg Schilling wrote: Linux does not contain code to boot AFAIK Sure, it does. You can boot on the kernel directly without a boot manager. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: where did lvm installation guide go?

2013-08-31 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
don't think it worth the trouble anymore. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
the smart feedbacks. Obvisously, it was all about me. F**k I want to believe you don't embody the dominant POV of the Gentoo maintainers about the original topic. / I'm going serioulsy tired of this thread. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Aug 03, 2013 at 03:20:27PM +0200, pk wrote: On 2013-08-03 14:28, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Steven J. Long wrote: While I (and others BTW) was trying to provide an external POV with points to make outside contributions and rectruitement more

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-02 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. :-) Regards, -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-02 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. This is merely one example of my contributions to the open source world and when it comes to recruitement, workflow and decision processes I think I know what I'm talking about. Pointing out my hand-holding, ego-stroking or whatever looks pointless. I know the basics. Thanks, -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-02 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 01:58:35PM +0200, hasufell wrote: So we are pretty open to new contributors. Nice conclusion! -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
some time. Not very light and efficient... Now, I'm away from Gentoo and it's fine. :-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
before they do the merge and submit to the main maintainers. Something like the kernel with the main maintainers, the lieutenants and open contributors. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is so AWESOME

2013-08-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
and I had no answers. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Questions

2013-01-24 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 02:21:22PM +0100, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:30:02 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: Did you check if the system is swapping when that happen? Im sorry, you mean Swap? How can check them best? % free -m The htop tool

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Questions

2013-01-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
and the result end in freeze. What is really strange, when i run emerge --sync ; emerge -avuDN @world, the Pentium 4 is faster as the Atom. Is that normal? Did you check if the system is swapping when that happen? -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-10 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
, of course. Now, as long as you blind yourself with statements like that, I'm not going to respond anymore. I guess you need to make some basic research. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
files. So, this will affect times. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
faster yet? No. It depends on factors and underlying processes you claim they don't matter, which is wrong. They *might* be not relevant in some cases. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 07/09/12, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: There is another flaw in your assumption above. I already had the tarballs downloaded BEFORE even the first emerge. This is not a flaw in assumption. This is negligible. Fixing myself: s/negligible/out of the scope/ -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
that cache survives a reboot? You missed the point. One of the first thing emerge will do is to uncompress the package. At this time, all the files are cached in RAM. Hence, everything needed for the build/compilation will come from the cache like it would do with tmpfs. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
any difference from the drop cache configuration but it is still not the point! -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
is, /tmpfs cache (RAM)/ or /kernel cache (RAM)/, having portages work on tmpfs doesn't result in speed improvements. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
by the kernel during the emerge. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
can't keep all the cached files for all the processes because it is missing of RAM, then underlying disk rapidity (tmpfs vs bare metal HDD) will sightly change the results. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
cache is NEVER raised in the process. This is exactly what your tests demonstrate demonstrate: if you have enough RAM, the persistence strategy of kernel cache is not raised, so everything happens in RAM, so the emerge times do not differ. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
storage you use. The difference you could see is if there is not enough RAM for the kernel cache, it will have to wait for the backend storage. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: aligning SSD partitions

2012-09-06 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} hire a programmer or company?

2012-05-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
of the software maintainer). FMPOV the key role is the maintainer. The job requires both good technical knowlegde and a large project view. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
a year, how do I best do the upgrade? from people following this advice? I think there is a better thing to do. Use an initramfs. This is not hell! ;-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-29 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
/var mounted too. Which begs the obvious question, Why on earth is udev launching daemons in EARLY BOOT? udev launches nothing. udev scripts do. These scripts are not part of udev. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 5 - failure :-(

2012-03-14 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
which could even help the current udev - mdev effort by providing a different picture of the landscape. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
rely on initramfs for all of these kind of systems for years with success. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
-- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
/dev and AFAIK the only existing and up-to-date tool for this job is udev. I don't think any other distro attempted to get free of udev as it means coming back to 10 years ago, at least. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
of binaries from /bin to /usr/bin and so. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
can survive. :-) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 03/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 20:13, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: But servers have enough ressources to run udev and any required initramfs to mount /usr. No, no, no, you got it the wrong way around. It's not udev *per se* that I -- as a server

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 03/01/12, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Dienstag, 3. Januar 2012, 14:36:08 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: It's free software so everybody can feel free to support him, of course. I think it's time consummed in the wrong road. I'm a bit curious how long this alternative can survive

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-03 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
and server-oriented that they use uclibc instead of glibc. Hugh? http://alpinelinux.org/apk/main/x86/udev -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
, including random memory curruption. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 23/11/11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 10:17:07 +0100 Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: You're wrong. Using the virtualbox module means you turn the kernel to tained crap because of the number of problems it causes, including random memory curruption. Care

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
curruption. random is the key word explaining why not much details can be given. :) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
else? This is a question you should ask to the kernel developers. You're free to not trust them, of course. I'll still think they are at a much better place than yours to tell which driver are crap and which are not. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
to suppose he's using the most available implementation of sed on Linux distribution which is GNU sed. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: udev + /usr

2011-09-19 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
then. Bloat? -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
the network). -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
/bin and /sbin exist is to have tools available during boot time to mount /usr. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Replace root with aufs-united sda squashfs

2011-07-24 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
as / 2. Mount /.root.sqfs as / 3. Mount aufs, uniting /dev/xvda3 and /.root.sqfs as / 4. Mount everything else AFAIK, it should be more something like: mount -t aufs /dev/xvda3(rw) and /root/sqfs(ro) /new_root And then chroot to /new_root. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: root fs moved, but no init

2011-07-24 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
have all the drivers I need in the kernel. Any ideas why booting stops? Unix rights on files? How did you copy the system? -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
. Also, are these done as modules like nvidia is? Hmmm, if I remove xorg.conf, how does it know which driver to use? Hardware detection. If you don't use third party drivers, you can usually do without an xorg.conf. Or just read /var/log/Xorg.0.log after started X. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 21/07/11, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: The 21/07/11, Dale wrote: I have not been able to get the nv drivers to work. It has been so long since I had to use them, it appears I have forgot how to use them. I'm not sure I have ever used them since I been using Gentoo. Try VESA. I would

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone have any trouble with rc_parallel=YES ?

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
has its own bridge to attach guest virtual NICs. One of the bridge doesn't add the assigned VLAN. Setting rc_parallel to NO resolved this issue. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
) by playing some games or whatever you don't do usual. But at *FIRST* as it looks like you didn't do it yet, you have to _check your logs_. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
always using my text editor; so my editor makes the system crash. I'm not telling the root cause you suspect is not the real cause but that it is NOT likely to be the real cause in the first place. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-07 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
cross-compilation environment is not a piece of cake (too), even with dedicated tools such as crossdev. This topic would ask its own book. So, if you want to try Gentoo embedded save your time by working on unofficial stage3. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-04 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
from a list I maintain manually (emerge sucks at that game, by the way). Data is stored on a nilfs filesystem to improve snapshots size on disk. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: you are stopping a boot service

2011-05-14 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
on tty1 * WARNING: you are stopping a boot service Same thing happens after switching from X to a console with e.g. ctrl-altl-F2. Hm? :) You may have a service in the wrong runlevel called boot. What do you have in it? ( 'ls /etc/runlevels/boot' ) -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: kvm and libvirt

2011-03-30 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
-manager (so, libvirt I guess) already provide a network system (based on tun/tap AFAIR). -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] Re: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
just use the usual raid driver of the kernel. This issue is a noop. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

[gentoo-user] OT: governors (was: Is cpufrequtils needed these days?)

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
back report. -- Nicolas Sebrecht

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