Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Running cryptsetup under mdev

2014-05-12 Thread Matti Nykyri
On May 7, 2014, at 21:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: The create and remove commands with LUKS also require root. They use a session manager in desktop environments to allow users to do it. Sudo with a secure wrapper script might be sufficient for you? I was wondering. What is

[gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Hi. I have been trying to get systemd to boot, but I have run into several problems and need some help. I am using everything but /boot as lvm's, with a separate user partition. I had to copy systemd to /sbin because the initrd looks for the realinit too soon, but that is maybe another matter.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Running cryptsetup under mdev

2014-05-12 Thread Matti Nykyri
On May 7, 2014, at 21:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I was wondering. What is the actual reason why cryptsetup has a LUKS and non-LUKS set of options? And a short answer to the actual question :) LUKS automates key creation and non-LUKS lets you do it manually. Sorry for the

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:22 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have been trying to get systemd to boot, but I have run into several problems and need some help. I am using everything but /boot as lvm's, with a separate user partition. I had to copy systemd to /sbin because the initrd

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two drivers, which is bad). Thank you very much

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse button1 and move the mouse up (as with phones and tablets). This fails to end the

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/05/14 01:29, Mick wrote: On Sunday 11 May 2014 15:34:32 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:22 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have been trying to get systemd to boot, but I have run into several problems and need some help. I am using everything but /boot as lvm's, with a separate user partition. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: Is this an EFI, or a NVidia problem? Both. EFI does not provide a VGA text mode, only BIOS does. So booting in EFI mode makes VGA text mode impossible to use. Then there's NVidia, who do not officially support booting in anything else

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 18:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: mount does not show me the subvol-id or subvol-name of a mounted btrfs-subvolume. Seems like a bug in util-linux to me, in other distros that seems to work. /proc/mounts and findmnt also don't display that info, does anyone know how to

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/05/14 14:05, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: EFI does not provide a VGA text mode, only BIOS does. So booting in EFI mode makes VGA text mode impossible to use. Then there's NVidia, who do not officially support booting in anything else than

[gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 12/05/14 15:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Could you maybe add how you use the EFI console framebuffer driver here, just as a reference for others? You know, we all google around like hell ... especially with this intuitive UEFI-stuff ;-) It's an in-kernel driver, like VESAFB and so on.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 14:05, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 12/05/14 15:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Could you maybe add how you use the EFI console framebuffer driver here, just as a reference for others? You know, we all google around like hell ... especially with this intuitive UEFI-stuff ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 11 May 2014 09:53:10 +0100 schrieb Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Saturday 10 May 2014 10:33:19 William Kenworthy wrote: Note that as I said in my original email, dirvish really hammers a file system and only reiserfs seems to withstand it though I have gotten errors with it in

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-12 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 11 May 2014 23:24:34 +0200 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at: [...] ... but it is really nice-to-have the option to snapshot your root-fs, do-something-to-it (emerge unstable stuff, delete the wrong files, you name it ...), and if you don't like it you simply boot using your

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 12 May 2014 16:08:00 Marc Joliet wrote: [1] He used to be a regular in gentoo-amd64, when it was still active; yes, you know, the guy who wrote the longest emails ;) . ...and is the only person ever to have found his way into my kill file. -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Jc García
2014-05-12 4:15 GMT-06:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com: How can I do this, genkernel looks for its init before it mounts /usr and genkernel-next will not mount the separate /usr at all. My latest initrd is from the very latest genkernel. But how to get a complete history of systemd actions in the

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 12 May 2014 15:39:41 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Monday 12 May 2014 16:08:00 Marc Joliet wrote: [1] He used to be a regular in gentoo-amd64, when it was still active; yes, you know, the guy who wrote the longest emails ;) . ...and is the only person

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:15 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:22 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have been trying to get systemd to boot, but I have run into several problems and need some help. I am using

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Dale
Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 12 May 2014 15:39:41 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Monday 12 May 2014 16:08:00 Marc Joliet wrote: [1] He used to be a regular in gentoo-amd64, when it was still active; yes, you know, the guy who wrote the longest emails ;) . ...and is

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-12 4:15 GMT-06:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com: How can I do this, genkernel looks for its init before it mounts /usr and genkernel-next will not mount the separate /usr at all. My latest initrd is from the very latest genkernel. But how to

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 5:15 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:22 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have been trying to get systemd to boot, but I have run into

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: [snip] OK, I will try dracut, I hope it works with dracut. This is my kernel command line and RAID/LVM related stuff from GRUB2: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet nosplash GRUB_PRELOAD_MODULES=lvm mdraid1x And

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: [snip] OK, I will try dracut, I hope it works with dracut. This is my kernel command line and RAID/LVM related stuff from GRUB2: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:52 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:31 AM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: [snip] OK, I will try dracut, I hope it works with dracut. This is my kernel command line and RAID/LVM related stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 16:30, schrieb Marc Joliet: In a presentation by Donny Berkholz at Fosdem this year [0], he mentioned the distro CoreOS, and that they can do atomic updates. I haven't looked it up in detail, but they're website says that they use a dual-root scheme where the update is performed

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Mon, 12 May 2014 11:15:21 -0500 schrieb Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com: Marc Joliet wrote: Am Mon, 12 May 2014 15:39:41 +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk: On Monday 12 May 2014 16:08:00 Marc Joliet wrote: [1] He used to be a regular in gentoo-amd64, when it was still

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Daniel Frey
On 05/12/2014 08:04 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: There have been, however, plenty of other candidates that I *almost* put in a kill file, but didn't, because no one has yet shown themselves to be simultaneously overly annoying and unknowledgeable. Is that a challenge? ;-) Dan

[gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-12 Thread Hunter Jozwiak
Hi all. I got Espeakup to finally function, but I have a problem now with my Realtech 8188 WiFi adapter, Rev01, according to ifconfig. I know it shows up as wlp7s0 on an ifconfig, normally. But for what ever reason, it isn't showing up. I have, in my /etc/conf.d/net the line: wlp7s0=DHCP. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread Jc García
2014-05-12 10:22 GMT-06:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com: My kernel command line is like this: init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root udev video=uvesafb:1280x1024 speakup.synth=spkout vmalloc=256M dolvm rootfstype=ext4 real_init=/sbin/systemd systemd.confirm_spawn=yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Lable Printer for gLabels

2014-05-12 Thread James Cloos
J == Joseph syscon...@gmail.com writes: J Does anybody know if there is any label printer that will work with J gLabels For the benefit of the archive, net-print/dymo-cups-drivers works for each of the Dymo label printers, and glabels ships with templates for most (all?) of the supports label

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]: Is that (filesystem-)logic vald?

2014-05-12 Thread walt
On 05/11/2014 08:25 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I have an embedded system with internal flash memory. The internal flash memory contains some static files, which are only be read and others, which get written from time to time. The internal flash has a FAT32-formatted filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-12 10:22 GMT-06:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com: My kernel command line is like this: init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/mapper/linux--files-64--root udev video=uvesafb:1280x1024 speakup.synth=spkout vmalloc=256M dolvm rootfstype=ext4

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, May 11 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: This helped considerably. No grey bands; instead gdm puts up its screensaver and tells us the (correct) time. Moving the mouse moves the pointer and clicking on the upper right button

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 20:12:54 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: ***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. I am embarrassed to report that I missed that (perhaps nv is the nv nvidia; but in any case it is loading two

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse button1 and move the mouse up (as

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [...] I did emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world and emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts The problem remains (after a reboot). Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell puts up the screensaver giving the time in big

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:21 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, May 12 2014, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the following problem. To release the screensaver, the current gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, May 12 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:20 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [...] I did emerge --changed-use --update --keep-going world and emerge --depclean --ask --ignore-default-opts The problem remains (after a reboot). Specifically, gdm/gnome-shell

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]: Is that (filesystem-)logic vald?

2014-05-12 Thread James
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes: I have an embedded system with internal flash memory. The internal flash memory contains some static files, which are only be read and others, which get written from time to time. Embedded systems vary wildly. If you can you need to be as specific as

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-12 Thread covici
Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-05-12 4:15 GMT-06:00 cov...@ccs.covici.com: How can I do this, genkernel looks for its init before it mounts /usr and genkernel-next will not mount the separate /usr at all. My latest initrd is from the very latest genkernel. But how to

Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-12 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/12/14 23:31, Hunter Jozwiak wrote: Hi all. I got Espeakup to finally function, but I have a problem now with my Realtech 8188 WiFi adapter, Rev01, according to ifconfig. I know it shows up as wlp7s0 on an ifconfig, normally. But for what