Re: [gentoo-user] RAID help

2013-10-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I haven't had to set up a software RAID for years and now. I want to set up two RAID 1 arrays on a new file server to serve SBM to MSWindows clients. The first RAID1 having two disks, where a multipartition OS

[gentoo-user] vmware-player cannot start any virtual machines [solved]

2013-10-10 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, After upgrading to nvidia-drivers-331.13 I could no longer start any virtual machines in vmware-player (version 5.0.2.1031769). It would either close the vmware player application immediately without any message, or would tell me The virtual machine is busy. No combination of rebuilding

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/10/2013 19:37, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/10/2013 17:17, Greg Turner wrote: Rsync mirrors don't grow on trees, man. People pay good

Re: [gentoo-user] Sloppy sterm screen update over ssh

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I've recently noticed when ssh'ing into another machine that the xterm display doesn't fully update. I.e. there are holes where an app updates over a previous screen. I've tried Google, but any mention of screen is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync issue on only one comp on LAN

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/10/2013 17:17, Greg Turner wrote: Rsync mirrors don't grow on trees, man. People pay good money to provide that service to us. You should seriously be embarrassed to have posted this. Really? Then you

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me how to decipher this which has appeared in dmesg? Google wasn't very helpful. [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error. [Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no action required.

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparing RAID5/6 rebuild times, SATA vs SAS vs SSD

2013-09-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-09-20 6:43 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: A couple weeks ago one of the drives died. I hot-swap replaced it with a new one (with no down-time) and the rebuild took exactly 10 hours

Re: [gentoo-user] Comparing RAID5/6 rebuild times, SATA vs SAS vs SSD

2013-09-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, Being that one of the big reasons I stopped using RAID5/6 was the rebuild times - can be DAYS for a large array - I am very curious if anyone has done, or knows of anyone who has done any tests comparing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE: unwanted dependencies

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:14 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/09/2013 12:10, Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: Hi people, I am about to update KDE from 4.10.4 to 4.11.1. Is it possible to avoid installing various nepomuks and akonadis which No appear to be required now? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:04 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: 2. If I use kvm/virsh, is it possible to install a Mac image to watch Netflix streaming movies? Or, yecch, Windows, but I'd really rather not try that, as I haven't touched Windows for 15-20 years and see no reason to enrich

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: So, I simply inserted and partitioned the new drive, added it to the array and away we go! md0 : active raid6 sde1[6] sdd1[5] sdg1[4] sdh1[2] sdf1[1] sdi1[0] 11720009728 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 512k

Re: [gentoo-user] Deficient Gnome Window Frames

2013-09-06 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: This is the process I always follow: http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array The sfdisk trick will save you a bit of hassle. Thanks, it looks like I was on the right path! Crossing my

[gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my house. The array is a RAID6 (two parity drives) and this is the current state: md0 :

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone found a way to completely sanitize images of all potentially privacy-invading metadata for posting online? I recently discovered that there is actually an EXIF thumbnail image. So if you have a photo and you crop it

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: This is the process I always follow: http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array The sfdisk trick will save

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe from gentoo-news?

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: man 5 make.conf also documents FEATURES=news Oddly enough, we all know how to enable FEATURES (just add to the list), but I have no idea how to disable them! I don't have news in my FEATURES but I do get the

Re: How hard is it to move separate /usr to / partition? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: And really, maybe you could try an initramfs? It will be much more easy than any juggle of filesystems. I always compile my kernels manually, by choice - so, no desire to use genkernel or dracut. How would I then

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:04:38 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: For the folks who lost /etc/conf.d/net, was it the stub file that came with OpenRC, or had you modify it? I've tried the update on two systems, both with modified

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What (free) remote desktop do you use

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/08/13 11:26, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, some recent updates of X11, gtk++ or glib has broken the possibility to use some gnome3 applications (like a recent balsa) via nxclient. Since NX3's internal X-server

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: WTF is the openrc ebuild doing deleting /etc/conf.d/net ?!?!? In many cases, removing a package will not remove its config file. The ebuild doesn't touch it, as far as I can tell. But you are right, portage shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: I use -mtune=native rather than -march=native, that way I can use some advanced processor features if they are available, but my system will still run if moved to a different host. That's not how -mtune works. If

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine 'Least Common Denominator' between Xen(Server) Hosts

2013-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I know that the (theoretical) best performance is to use -march=native , but since the processors of the HP servers are not exactly the same as the Dell's, I'm concerned that compiling with -march=native will render the

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange segfaults during PHP emerge - during .configure phase I believe...

2013-08-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Anyone ever seen/can explain these? I had 3 of them, again, apparently during the .configure phase: 2013-08-10T15:08:36-04:00 myhost kernel: conftest[12233]: segfault at 1 ip 7f1fc65e8e47 sp 7690d6e0

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone able to run Gnash or Lightspark in Gentoo? Now is the second time I tried it (because yesterday I noticed that Gnash performs not bad in another distro, Trisquel). I'm on ~amd64. Both Gnash and Lightspark have

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: For youtube you can enable HTML5 mode and avoid flash entirely for many videos (but not all). Does not help with other sites but at least it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing Adobe Flash

2013-08-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 08/06/2013 10:24 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-08-06 10:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: For youtube you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeze after suspend-to-ram with kernel 3.10

2013-08-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 02.08.2013 12:47, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: Hey list My netbook doesn't freeze so often during operation any more. But now it’s started to not properly wake up from suspend-to-ram. It’s like with my

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: on 08/01/2013 01:10 AM Bruce Hill wrote the following: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:17:02PM +0300, Thanasis wrote: on 07/31/2013 10:06 PM Paul Hartman wrote the following: There are a few approaches to try figuring it out

Re: [gentoo-user] euse after portage upgrade

2013-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 2:42 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@sayusi.hu wrote: Hi All, Yesterday there was an portage upgrade and after that I got it if I would like to use euse: sayusi-desktop sayusi # euse -E gtk3 ERROR: $PORTDIR couldn't be determined What is it and why that variable not

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

2013-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, Ok, rehashing this, but please don't turn it into another udev vs systemd thread. I have an older server that I have been putting off this update, debating on whether to update to the regular udev, or to

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-07-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Early during booting phase, dmesg shows: [0.515651] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdefe000 port 0xfdefe180 irq 17 [0.833387] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) But later, it reports lots like

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-07-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Early during booting phase, dmesg shows: [0.515651] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m8192@0xfdefe000 port 0xfdefe180 irq 17 [0.833387] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) But later, it reports lots like

Re: [gentoo-user] Chromium: questions

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Pavel Volkov negai...@gmail.com wrote: I have 2 questions about how Chromium operates with a clean profile. I run it like this: % chromium --user-data-dir=dir Directory dir is empty (at first launch). After the first launch, some entries immediately appear

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/profile is gone - how to chroot

2013-07-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, previously and still documented nearly everywhere one has to do env-update source /etc/profile after chroot but in recent systems, the file /etc/profile is gone. How to adapt the environment in a

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/profile is gone - how to chroot

2013-07-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 07/24/13 16:34:46, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, previously and still documented nearly everywhere one has to do

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 19.07.2013 21:02, schrieb Paul Hartman: Old SSDs that did not support TRIM would suffer write amplification after a certain amount of data had been written to them, but any modern SSD and modern OS will keep

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 23.07.2013 00:22, schrieb Paul Hartman: I personally use discard with ext4 and btrfs, but I have not done tests or have evidence that it is the best choice for me. It's simply what I chose and never changed

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? My first step into SSD on my desktop was to put everything-but-home onto it. I left home on a HDD. Speedup was very noticeable! Especially portage-related things were very much faster

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 19 Jul 2013 17:43:39 Dale wrote: luis jure wrote: on 2013-07-19 at 01:56 Dale wrote: Do you really want to put /home on a SSD? well, not actually the whole /home, the SSD is too small for that. i'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote: My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying one big enough for all that. 1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: I won't buy any SATA mechanical drives except Hitachi. Hitachi's storage division was sold off and split up last year. Their 2.5 HDD and SDD lines now belong to Western Digital (who continue to sell the *Star

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a user with a shell account and SSH access

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My backup user needs a shell on the backup server in order to execute rsync and needs to be included in /etc/ssh/sshd_config AllowUsers in order to SSH in. My authorized_keys file is locked-down. The second field for the user

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD partitioning and migration

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, Hi! i want to migrate my system, currently in a HD, to a new SSD. i thought it would be easy, but i decided to read a little before partitioning the disk (my first SDD) and now i'm really confused... i

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 2:39 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I've been watching this thread with interest, because I've been trying to find out which HDD I should be buying for a new PC. For every person reporting problematic Seagates there's another person complaining about Western

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ST4000DM000 As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB Desktop edition drives I bought already

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 03.07.2013 00:42, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does anyone use that controller with gentoo? If yes, which driver/module does support it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does it make sense to apply some sort of burn-in-procedure before actually formatting and using the disks? Running badblocks or something? I ask because I wait for that shiny new server and doing so might not hurt

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? I think how they typically work, on any OS, is they exploit a bug in the

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ST4000DM000 As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB Desktop edition drives I bought already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives have each encountered dozens of unreadable sectors so far. I

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file),

[gentoo-user] Mouse/pointing stick/trackpoint calibration?

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a keyboard with built-in pointing stick (like IBM trackpoint). It shows up like a standard USB mouse. Problem is: it moves to the right at a rate about 6x faster than it moves to the left... For example I can move the mouse cursor from left to right in 1 second, but from right to left

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as expected, but in the other two it scrolls the command-line buffer! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I installed xscavenger and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in games group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe /usr/games/bin/ is not on the path? How do I check it, I forgot :-/ echo $PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: My planned box will be a stable gentoo installation so that will mean 3.8.13 for now. No problem, I assume. No problem, I think the mpt2sas driver appeared in kernel around 2.6.3X series. Thanks for your description

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever it's called). This is the link: https://twitter.com/TideswellMVC If

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 03.07.2013 00:42, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does anyone use that controller with gentoo? If yes, which driver/module does support it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: All the references Google can find for me say that you have to use a GPT partition table if you want to specify a boot partition using root=PARTUUID=partition-uuid. Does the root=PARTUUID option work for you?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Can you point to some documentation on how you can use root=PARTUID=partition-uuid with an DOS/MBR partition table? As Neil alluded to, you can use UUID with MBR (instead of PARTUUID and GPT). I have DOS/MBR

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Does anyone use that controller with gentoo? If yes, which driver/module does support it? I ordered one for a server and did not really check the facts ;-) Looks like it uses the LSI SAS2008 chipset (basically LSI

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't find init due to inconsistent drive order

2013-07-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've just recently run into a problem where sometimes when a machine boots, the kernel can't find init. This appears to be because my grub configuration line says root=/dev/sda5 and _sometimes_ the drive that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way of tracing kernel freezes?

2013-06-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/06/13 16:47, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: recently my netbook got the habit of freezing sporadically. [...] [...] I ran a memtest a few months back and stopped it after 8 successful passes. I might try that again

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Recent git kernels break rtc (real-time-clock)

2013-06-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:31 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: After the recent 3.9 -- 3.10 kernel merge window, udev no longer creates /dev/rtc (or /dev/rtc0) during bootup on my ~amd64 machines. (The only machines I have now.) Not a git-kernel nerd, but just an ordinary kernel nerd. :) The

Re: [gentoo-user] Crash dumps

2013-06-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: With some recent software updates (well, a month's worth...didn't realize I wasn't syncing on my laptop), X now frequently dies on me. As it happens, I've already rebuilt all the software on the system...I do an emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 4:12 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: The problem. After I am logged into KDE for a good while, like several hours to maybe a day or so, the kicker thingy at the bottom locks up tight. I can't switch desktops, clock stops working, can't click the K menu thingy

Re: [gentoo-user] external SSD problem

2013-05-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I just got one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208913 It seems to work fine except that once I eject it in Thunar, I get this in dmesg: sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Homeboy (Gentoo) Cloud storage

2013-05-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:03 PM, James Horton PE wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Background. One thing that intrigues me is that one storage server can intellegently store files from a variety of hardware devices. I like this concept, but, many of my devices are not common retail

Re: [gentoo-user] boot-time message about nic firmware patch

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:04 AM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: The last 4 lines from dmesg... [4.299946] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: unable to load firmware patch rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw (-2) [4.312766] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: link down [4.312784] r8169 :04:00.0 eth0: link

Re: [gentoo-user] high resolution console

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi people! I want to have a feature installed on my gentoo machine, that if I boot I am will see a high resolution console. When I boot from the system rescue cd, at boot time it is being switch to a higher

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: I'm puzzled by the following, which I checked to compare with the import error you quoted: $ eix -c qtwebkit [I] dev-qt/qtwebkit (4.8.4(4){tbz2}@08/05/13): The WebKit module for the Qt toolkit $ equery f

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting size of /dev/shm or cleaning up ancient /etc/fstab

2013-05-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I'm running mdev, so that may be related. Here's my story... a script I run to automatically process digital photos started blowing up on me. After much bashing of head against brick wall, I determined that /dev/shm

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Randolph Maaßen r.maasse...@gmail.com wrote: I'm so damn lucky I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the image with qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the system back to live on the image. I tried the same on the real

Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, We are trying to sync our server's time with an accurate ntp server, and was wondering which of the many solutions are considered viable. I did see the http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/04/2013 22:46, the guard wrote: Пятница, 26 апреля 2013, 22:41 +02:00 от Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Do none of us here ever deal with Windows? :-) I notice that no-one has yet mentioned that

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On 23-Apr-13 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ext4 is fine. All the horror stories ended years ago and almost all major distros ship it as a default. Hm, I remember one horror story about ext4 data corruption bug which circulated

Re: [gentoo-user] How reliable is ext3?

2013-04-23 Thread Paul Hartman
I'll add my anecdotes :) On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: In over 10 years, I have never had a file system failure with any of these (all used a lot): ext2 ext3 ext4 zfs reiser3 ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs here. ext4 for years (ever since it lost

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

2013-04-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:51 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I can display the basic emoticons when I receive them in email via thunderbird. Many of the newer, more sophisticated emoticons only show the raw ascii characters. [1] Fixes for thunderbird (10.0.11) and

Re: SOLVED - was Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: It's unfortunate there's no tool to perform as revdep-rebuild, except checking that, e.g. a package was built with the current CHOST or CFLAGS set. The fact that I can run 'emerge --info $atomname' to get the build

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.7.2-r1 build failing with bus error

2013-04-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, For some weird reason, I'm unable to build gcc 4.7.2-r1. This is the error - /bin/sh: line 1: 3871 Bus error build/genautomata

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: The most important para to me in the news item was: The feature can also be completely disabled using net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line. I just added that to my grub.conf entries and I sail blissfully on with

Re: [gentoo-user] Difference between --update and --emptytree?

2013-04-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: What do you mean by sane depclean? Are there any problems with --depclean that I am not aware of? emerge -p --depclean generates dire warnings. I keep a previous version of the kernel (gentoo-sources) as a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:51 AM, Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org wrote: Hello, i am using pdns recursor to provide a dns server which should be usable for everybody.The problem is, that the server seems to be used in dns amplification attacks. I googled around on how to prevent this but did

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inline data

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Hi list! I noticed that beginning with kernel 3.8, ext4 can store small files entirely inside the inode. But I couldn't find much additional information: - Is the improvement automatically enabled? I don't believe

Re: [gentoo-user] ext4 inline data

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My question would be: Will it introduce a significant advantage to my situation, so much so that I'm willing to live with the obvious drawbacks? Here are some benchmarks:

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to reply), fail randomly when they should resolve, return an IP (which goes to their ad-laden

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32

2013-03-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com wrote: I recently switched from no- to multilib. In yesterday's emerge I got tens of blockers due to conflict with emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20130224. I solved as suggested in

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent a dns amplification attack

2013-03-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Or just use the ISP's DNS caches. In the vast majority of cases, the ISP knows how to do it right and the user does not. Generally true, though I've known people to choose not to use ISP caches owing to the ISP's

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync, emerge -puND world, and WHAM!!! ~100 packages to merge.

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo! Has anybody else seen this? I did a sync, then emerge -puND world and got a list of ~100 packages to merge. About a third of them seem to be new perl stuff, 13 packages with gnome, and a lot of this and that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported. FWIW. I've had flakey

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: parental control software

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I'm looking for software that can be used to control a child's usage of the computer (not Internet filtering). At the very least it should be able to control length of login sessions and when the child is able to login.

Re: [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Carlos Hendson skyc...@gmx.net wrote: For last few weeks or so, I've been getting intermittent hard lock-ups during the emerge of various packages. It appears the more compile intensive the package, the more likely the lock-up. These lock-ups have occurred

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: parental control software

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: I'm looking for software that can be used to control a child's usage of the computer (not Internet filtering). At the very least it should be able to control length of login sessions and when the child is able to login.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I chroot to a folder?

2013-03-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:43 PM, João Matos jaon...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, I want to install a samba server using Gentoo. But I decided to start the installation o my machine and make a stage4 at some folder. The idea is to spent less time at the target machine. But, when I try to

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

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Why I prefer Gentoo over other distros: Full control. That's it, in a nutshell. I mean, I can (and do) leverage -march=native. I've been scared away from -march and instead of -mtune in case i need to drop my hard drive

Re: [gentoo-user] make modules_install error; modules not recognized as ELF files

2013-03-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:47:34PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote Is my netbook dying, or is something else wrong? This is an older 32-bit Atom netbook, with CFLAGS=-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] Frustration with attempt to fix out of date java ebuild [SOLVED]

2013-03-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Matt Joyce mjo...@mttjocy.co.uk wrote: Ok, I really just do not get what on earth it thinks I'm doing wrong here, trying to install java firstly the ebuild in portage it appears is too old, it wants me to fetch a copy of 7u15 from a page that now only has 7u17

Re: [gentoo-user] Programm for Floor Plans

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, know someone a program for draw floor plans? I has use normal Visio for it, but unter Linux? If you're able to use a real CAD program, LibreCAD is good one. It's not in portage but in the science overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] Java - which version does my browser use?

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, when I direct my browser (opera or firefox, both at most recent versions) to http://javatester.org/version.html they both say I'm using Java Version: 1.7.0_13 from Oracle Corporation but eselect

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