Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 March 2015 04:33:18 Dale wrote: Well, /boot doesn't change to much, plus it is fairly small anyway. The root partition doesn't change a whole lot either. /usr tho, it tends to grow. If nothing else, it grows as KDE grows but it grows with the number of kernels I have too.

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blocks for system and world update not resolved

2015-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 05:11:25 +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I have problems getting these blocks at a system update solved... I executed: emerge --backtrack=30 -fuDN @system @world ... ... [blocks B ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.670.0 (perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.670.0 is

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2015 16:07:29 Dale wrote: I don't have / on lvm. /boot and / are on regular partitions. Everything else, /usr, /var and /home, are on lvm. Keep in mind, I was trying to avoid that init thingy. I remember something of that discussion, but not why

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 17 March 2015 16:07:29 Dale wrote: I don't have / on lvm. /boot and / are on regular partitions. Everything else, /usr, /var and /home, are on lvm. Keep in mind, I was trying to avoid that init thingy. I remember something of that discussion, but not why you wanted to keep /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 08:54:40 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't have / on lvm. /boot and / are on regular partitions. Everything else, /usr, /var and /home, are on lvm. Keep in mind, I was trying to avoid that init thingy. I remember something of that discussion, but not why you

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: You are reading it wrong. That means: util-linux needs to be built with USE=static-libs because lvm2 is already built with USE=static None of which explains why you originally built lvm2 that way. It

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 March 2015 04:33:18 Dale wrote: Well, /boot doesn't change to much, plus it is fairly small anyway. The root partition doesn't change a whole lot either. /usr tho, it tends to grow. If nothing else, it grows as KDE grows but it grows with the number

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 March 2015 11:14:43 Dale wrote: Well, since I set this rig up, I have had to grow /usr twice. The only reason I have not had to grow it recently is because I moved all the portage stuff to /var. In the past, I had to move everything to another drive, rework the partitions,

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Dale
Poncho wrote: On 18.03.2015 17:37, Rich Freeman wrote: [...] You can look inside an initramfs by doing the following: mkdir /tmp/ext cd /tmp/ext zcat /boot/initramfs-3.18.9-gentoo.img | cpio -i find usr find lib64 ... [...] dracut comes with the /usr/bin/lsinitrd tool. pretty

[gentoo-user] Re: Lisp is not Lisp is... ?

2015-03-18 Thread James
Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: Then I installed dev-lisp/gcl there (which compiles fine). You might want to cross-compile the codes and dependent codes on a x86 machine and move them over, as another test I'd first try by only setting the minimum you need to get the codes to compile.

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Poncho
On 18.03.2015 17:37, Rich Freeman wrote: [...] You can look inside an initramfs by doing the following: mkdir /tmp/ext cd /tmp/ext zcat /boot/initramfs-3.18.9-gentoo.img | cpio -i find usr find lib64 ... [...] dracut comes with the /usr/bin/lsinitrd tool. pretty convenient. With the -f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-18 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:41:25 PM walt wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Thanks to all who replied. I'm surprised by the variety of different

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 18 March 2015 13:12:47 Dale wrote: I switched way back in 2003 when it was rare that a init thingy was needed in Gentoo. It seems someone screwed that up. I still don't have one, nor do I foresee a need. I try to keep a few fall back plans around. Spare kernels etc. One old

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-18 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/18/2015 04:41 PM, walt wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Thanks to all who replied. I'm surprised by the variety of different results you

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-18 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:56:12 PM Walter Dnes wrote: My situation... * I've dug up my ancient netbook, and got Gentoo re-installed on it * The cpu is a dual-core Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z520 * It's 32-bit only; YES! * Compiling just the Seamonkey binary (ignoring its dependancies)

Re: [gentoo-user] [offtopic] GNU Root Gentoo on Android

2015-03-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Amazing and with real potential! I have partially updated the image but can't update python and some other packages because they want /dev/shm. The Android kernel uses /dev/ashmem with a different API to /dev/shm - other than a custom kernel, is there another workaround? BillK On 17 March 2015

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-18 Thread walt
On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Thanks to all who replied. I'm surprised by the variety of different results you reported. (BTW, I'm running

[gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
My situation... * I've dug up my ancient netbook, and got Gentoo re-installed on it * The cpu is a dual-core Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z520 * It's 32-bit only; YES! * Compiling just the Seamonkey binary (ignoring its dependancies) took 14 hours I obviously want to offload compiling to another

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:27:05PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:56:12 PM Walter Dnes wrote: My situation... * I've dug up my ancient netbook, and got Gentoo re-installed on it * The cpu is a dual-core Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU Z520 * It's 32-bit only;

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 18 March 2015 13:12:47 Dale wrote: I switched way back in 2003 when it was rare that a init thingy was needed in Gentoo. It seems someone screwed that up. I still don't have one, nor do I foresee a need. I didn't have one until I recently rebooted and got

Re: [gentoo-user] Will a 64-bit-no-multilib machine cross-compile 32-bit code?

2015-03-18 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:20:26 AM Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:27:05PM -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 9:56:12 PM Walter Dnes wrote: My situation... * I've dug up my ancient netbook, and got Gentoo re-installed on it * The cpu

[gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-18 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:47:04 -0700 Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Anyone else see the same with firefox-36?

Re: [gentoo-user] eject and util-linux blocker

2015-03-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I thought there was a tool that just lists the contents. Things is, I'm not sure what I would be looking at. An initramfs is just a root filesystem. init is /sbin/init unless the kernel is told otherwise. If you took your

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

2015-03-18 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 18 Mar 2015 03:53:57 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 4:49:54 PM walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Anyone else see the same with firefox-36?