[gentoo-user] dev-libs/nss-3.90

2023-06-06 Thread victor romanchuk
hi, just noticed that night upgrade to [~amd64] dev-libs/nss-3.90 crashed firefox and thunderbird at start: both ABENDing with `illegal instruction' diagnostics. FF rebuild did not change behavior Downgrade to ~dev-libs/nss-3.89.1 cured the issue

[gentoo-user] www-client/chromium-63.0.3239.132

2018-01-18 Thread victor romanchuk
just noticed new use flag in recent stable chromium ebuild: $ quse -D jumbo-build  local:jumbo-build:www-client/chromium: Combine source files to speed up build process. setting that significantly speeds up emerge time (tried it twice; the second attempt had the flag set) $ qlop -gHv -d `date

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 57.0.4 without pulseaudio? Possible?

2018-01-13 Thread victor romanchuk
On 01/14/2018 07:17 AM, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Is it posible to use Firefox wihout pulseaudio installed? > If "yes" -- how can I acchieche this? Yes it is possible; to achieve that you just have to use www-client/firefox, e.g compile it from source Due to dependencies (now ff is boud with

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

2017-10-03 Thread victor romanchuk
On 10/03/2017 02:28 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/3/2017, 1:27:45 AM, victor romanchuk <r...@persimplex.net> wrote: >> there are two files to change/check before migration >> >> * /etc/inittab :: console terminal (XEN PV domUs do use hvc console and >> KVM VM e

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

2017-10-02 Thread victor romanchuk
hi On 10/02/2017 08:30 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > One thing I do seem to recall is there was somewhere that I had to > define Xen as the virtualization environment being used, but I can't > remember where I did that. Was that in the kernel config? If so, their > tool should (hopefully) handle that

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread victor romanchuk
On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: I've been using chromium successfully on my ~x86 system for quite a long time, but starting with the last two updates that came in during the last few days (namely, chromium-40.0.2214.85 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest chromium-40 on ~x86

2015-01-25 Thread victor romanchuk
On 01/25/2015 04:29 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 25.01.2015 um 11:08 schrieb victor romanchuk: On 01/24/2015 07:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 24 January 2015 16:43:41 Nils Holland wrote: The question, thus, would probably be: Anyone using one of the recent chromium-40

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XFCE weather plugin does not work

2014-10-18 Thread victor romanchuk
On 10/18/2014 02:37 AM, David W Noon wrote: I have prepared some patches from the Xfce repository with line addressing to match the Gentoo sources tarball. I attach a tarball of theses patches that can be untarred in /etc/portage/patches/ applied. thank you

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I fix wrong boot order?

2013-10-29 Thread victor romanchuk
On 10/29/2013 10:47 PM, Jarry wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I noticed strange message during boot-up of one of my servers: __ [snip] As you see, syslog-ng can not open conection to remote syslog collector. Reason seems to be quite

Re: [gentoo-user] re: automounting removable drives

2013-10-07 Thread victor romanchuk
On 10/07/2013 11:36 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for your responses. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that I do have xfce4-mount-plugin installed. box0=; equery list '*xfce*'|grep mount xfce-extra/xfce4-mount-plugin-0.6.4 But I still can't auto-mount my removable drives. So I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Local root exploit (not?) working...

2013-05-15 Thread victor romanchuk
On 05/15/2013 08:35 PM, Jarry wrote: Actually, it does not (?) work on my box even with PERF_EVENTS, but when I compile run it (as non-root user), my system is instantly restarted. So it seems that gentoo-sources 3.7.10-r1 are at least partially affected. I hope to see fix soon! this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev-197 : 4 show-stoppers

2013-01-20 Thread victor romanchuk
On 01/20/2013 12:51 PM, Philip Webb wrote: I just tried upgrading to udev-197 , which is supposed to be stable. There were multiple problems I'm now back with udev-171 . (1) Setting system clock using HW clock; can't access HW clock. (2) Mounting local filesystems; mount point /dev/shm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo guest audio on Virtualbox

2012-12-08 Thread victor romanchuk
On 12/07/2012 05:26 PM, Mick wrote: On Monday 03 Dec 2012 10:53:16 Markos Chandras wrote: Any ideas? I also have a Windows Guest (Host settings Pulseaudio/Intel HD Audio) and the sound works there without problems. If you're running the binary VBox package I seem to recall that sound was

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-05 Thread victor romanchuk
hi Dale wrote, at 08/05/2012 04:45 PM: Howdy, I have heard of bonnie and friends. I also think dd could do some testing too. Is there any other way to give this a good work and see if it holds up? Oh, helpful hints with Bonnie would be great too. I have never used it before. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen virtual devices not working - no guests

2012-02-05 Thread victor romanchuk
hi Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 02/05/2012 01:50 PM: and I checked that they are loaded. The real strange thing is, that I have an identical .config (regarding the xen stuff) on a 2nd box and all is fine. So I need to debug the hotplug scripts somehow to see what is going wrong. I tried to

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen virtual devices not working - no guests

2012-02-04 Thread victor romanchuk
Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 02/03/2012 09:01 PM: When I boot gentoo-sources 3.2.1 Dom0 boots, and DomUs would boot if they had no virtual block or network devices. Both backend device options are in the Dom0 kernel. Anybody has a hint on how to debug this? most likely this is due to dom0

Re: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-29 Thread victor romanchuk
Alex Schuster wrote, at 01/29/2012 11:23 PM: What are your impressions on this? Is it fun? Will there be a noticeable speed difference? Do packages fail to build? We just had a 'Graphite causing trouble' thread here, the problem was that dev-libs/cloog-ppl has to be rebuilt when dev-libs/ppl

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver?

2012-01-07 Thread victor romanchuk
Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 01/07/2012 03:51 PM: since xen got into the mainstream kernel the way to go is to use gentoo-sources for dom0 and the domUs. However the blktap modules are not there. Is there any way to get this to work? blktap drivers were excluded from kernel mainline since

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth and headset with gentoo...

2012-01-05 Thread victor romanchuk
Tamer Higazi wrote, at 01/06/2012 09:17 AM: however, I need to see it as an alsa device. this is my problem. it's not a problem, according to alsa docs http://alsa.opensrc.org/.asoundrc pcm.genius { type bluetooth } pcm.genius-in { type plug slave { pcm genius rate 48000 } }

Re: [gentoo-user] bluetooth and headset with gentoo...

2012-01-05 Thread victor romanchuk
Tamer Higazi wrote, at 01/06/2012 11:14 AM: People! I am not a bluetooth expert how do I configure bluez to make a permanent connection with the bluez headset??? I did: pcm.jabra { type bluetooth } [snip] .asoundrc is an audio part of configuration. bebore that you have to: *

Re: [gentoo-user] Two issues with OpenRC/baselayout2 migration on a hosted VM

2011-12-14 Thread victor romanchuk
Pandu Poluan wrote, at 12/13/2011 10:26 PM: On Dec 14, 2011 1:06 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org mailto:tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: What should I set this to? Assuming that Linode is indeed using Xen, would it be: rc_sys=xenU ? AFAIK Linode uses Xen so xenU is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-07 Thread victor romanchuk
walt wrote, at 12/07/2011 02:40 AM: On 12/05/2011 09:41 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: Looks like the ebuild has been updated and now has -gtk3 by default. :) thank you for the update Yes, I just finished rebuilding it and all the painting problems are gone. No hacking needed :) Just be aware

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-01 Thread victor romanchuk
Can anyone confirm or deny? i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3 after an hour of tries decided to switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] how can I disable renaming of root fs to /dev/root?

2011-11-12 Thread victor romanchuk
Jarry wrote, at 11/11/2011 09:37 PM: Hi, this is actually not problem but rather a matter of customs: My new fresh installed system shows root-fs in df as /dev/root, not actuall device (in my case /dev/md2). I think I coud get used to it, but some software still needs /dev/md2 (i.e. lilo),

Re: [gentoo-user] Xen 4.1.1 trouble

2011-11-08 Thread victor romanchuk
Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 11/08/2011 02:14 PM: Hi, I upgraded one system from Xen 3.4.2 to 4.1.1. Now when I start a guest the whole machine instantly reboots. Are there any changes necessary so that this works? I didn't touch the configuration of the guest. It's a PV gentoo running

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge dependence question

2011-11-06 Thread victor romanchuk
Zhang Jun wrote, at 11/06/2011 02:27 PM: # eselect editor list Available targets for the EDITOR variable: [1] /bin/nano [2] /bin/ed [3] /usr/bin/ex [4] /usr/bin/vi [ ] (free form) sanitize the EDITOR environment: eselect editor update then set a suitable one from

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-21 Thread victor romanchuk
i had noticed that distcc is peevish about CFLAGS: these should be compatible on both client and server. in my case i made these similar on both machines (laptop is core2duo and desktop is core2quad; both are running amd64 arch) I don't think this is true - as long as the CHOST is

Re: [gentoo-user] Hoping someone can help explain distcc to me

2011-08-20 Thread victor romanchuk
Both machines contain distcc in FEATURES. It's not using -march=native. I've tried various -jN values with no real difference in performance. only client (your laptop) machine should be distcc featured. for server (desktop) that feature is useless On the desktop, /etc/conf.d/distcc contains

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

2011-08-16 Thread victor romanchuk
1 Desktop 1 Netbook (For holiday and during travel) 1 home server (running Xen with virtualized Gentoo instances) i own similar combination (the server is actually head/mouseless desktop powered by core i7 and equipped with 24gb of ram allowing to concurrently run number of gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-16 Thread victor romanchuk
it does not actually matter how you configured the driver -- built-in kernel or as module: everytime when driver operates the device, it checks whether firmware is loaded. Are you sure about that? AFAIK firmware loading is only attempted once, when the driver is first initialized. i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Firmware exists but fails to load

2011-08-15 Thread victor romanchuk
? Udev has been the standard way to service kernel firmware requests for quite some time. The relevant bit is in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-firmware.rules . Ok so that must be working on my laptop (automatically, i didn't configure anything) but failing on my desktop. However, udevd is only

Re: [gentoo-user] USB-BT211 causing udev to fail, related to usb3, how to disable?

2011-08-13 Thread victor romanchuk
I have an ASUS USB-BT211 bluetooth dongle, I have never been able to make it work and it causes udev to fail at startup and sending the following msg to the syslog: 2011-08-13T09:45:30+02:00 poff udevd[5235]: timeout 'usb_id --export /devices/pci:00/:00:12.0/usb3' This seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] NFSv4: 32-bit server versus 64-bit client?

2011-08-05 Thread victor romanchuk
I'm trying to be a good gentoo netizen by nfs-sharing /usr/portage between my three local gentoo machines, and failing :( After weeks of fiddling, I discovered today that my problems come from using a 32-bit machine to serve my two 64-bit NFS clients(!) (I'll mention up front that NFSv3

Re: [gentoo-user] Failure to compile 2.6.39-gentoo-r3

2011-07-20 Thread victor romanchuk
LD .tmp_vmlinux1 arch/x86/built-in.o: In function `microcode_init': microcode_core.c:(.init.text+0xaeb5): undefined reference to `init_intel_microcode' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 this should not happen: if you selected any module from the kernel tree to be built into the

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around Argument list too long?

2011-07-17 Thread victor romanchuk
it could be slightly less efficient comparing to plain `rm', but worked around your problem: find your-dir -ctime -1 -exec rm {} \; basically `find' has a lot options filtering result set. these include time/date, file name (regexp), file type and so on. consult man for details victor Grant