Re: [gentoo-user] Failed builds of kbuild and cdrdao with "undefined reference to `__alloca'"

2018-02-09 Thread tuxic
On 02/09 10:02, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2018, 15:03:28 CET schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > > Hi, > > > > I still have the problem of failed builds due to an > > 'undefined reference to `__alloca''. I recompiled > > gcc/glibc and I am using linux-4.15.1 (from kernel.org) > > w

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 02/09/2018 03:30 AM, gevisz wrote: May be, it is not a good idea to put /mnt on tmpfs at the time of Spector and Meltdown? I wouldn't put /mnt on tmpfs as I routinely create mount points there in. As such they would be lost on reboot. What difference does Spector or Meltdown (or the next

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed builds of kbuild and cdrdao with "undefined reference to `__alloca'"

2018-02-09 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2018, 15:03:28 CET schrieb tu...@posteo.de: > Hi, > > I still have the problem of failed builds due to an > 'undefined reference to `__alloca''. I recompiled > gcc/glibc and I am using linux-4.15.1 (from kernel.org) > with linux-headers 4.15. . > > Affected are (at least) c

[gentoo-user] kernel 4.14.15-gentoo breaks Dell Wireless 370 Bluetooth Mini-card device

2018-02-09 Thread Mick
I just noticed I can no longer use bluetooth with the 4.14.15 kernel. This laptop has a shared bluetooth and WiFi mini card, which has never worked properly (see attached hardware details). Although MWindows has no problem, in Linux I have to disable WiFi when I need to use bluetooth! O_o An

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 4:15 GMT+02:00 Ian Zimmerman : > On 2018-02-09 01:15, Wol's lists wrote: > >> > Care to cite an example of such a program in the Gentoo repo? I >> > certainly can't think of any, and I've been running with /var/tmp on >> > tmpfs for over a decade. >> >> I don't know of any. > > vim? > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 3:50 GMT+02:00 Dale : > gevisz wrote: >> >> You probably will be surprised, but the main reason I am trying to use >> tmpfs for /var/tmp/ is not because I want to make emerging chromium >> faster (I have no hope about that because read somewhere that it will >> make compilation only 10 p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 22:50:58 +, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > Just adding my 2 cents EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--fail-clean" helps a ton > with tmpfs. But it doesn't help much when your chromium build fails with 30 minutes to go and a quick(ish) "ebuild path/to/ebuild merge" would have fixed it, as h

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200 gevisz wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs: > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in > > make.conf. Job done! > > It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then? > > Can somebody think of a situati

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 09 Feb 2018 10:12:01 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in > > make.conf. Job done! > > Acting on the advice of various Gentoo guides, I have this: > > # grep tmp /etc/fstab > tmpfs /var/tmp/portagetmpfs

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:30:21 +0200, gevisz wrote: > > Why mess around with another tmpfs? Just set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp" in > > make.conf. Job done! > > It is an interesting idea. But why it is not done by default then? > Because when the defaults were picked neither /tmp nor /var/tmp used tmpf

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 3:24 GMT+02:00 Dale : > > In my experience, once swap starts getting used, it gets slow, sometimes > to the point that a response may take several seconds or more. When I > compile without tmpfs at all, which means everything is on disk, it's > rare that I can even tell it is using that

[gentoo-user] Re: Forced rebuild of a package...how?

2018-02-09 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Fri, 09 Feb 2018 11:39:25 +0100 schrieb Kai Krakow: > Am Sun, 04 Feb 2018 05:20:03 +0100 schrieb tuxic: > >> after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to >> reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. >> >> Emerge told me: >> |>emerge nvidia-drivers >> |Calculati

[gentoo-user] Re: Forced rebuild of a package...how?

2018-02-09 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 04 Feb 2018 05:20:03 +0100 schrieb tuxic: > after installing linux-4.15.1 (downloaded from kernel.org) I want to > reinstall (beside others) nvidia drivers. > > Emerge told me: > |>emerge nvidia-drivers > |Calculating dependencies... done! > |>>> Jobs: 0 of 0 complete

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 10:11 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick : > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote: > >> > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be >> > non-volatile (across reboots). >> > >> > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots). >> > >> > I would

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 9 February 2018 08:11:29 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote: > > > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be > > > non-volatile (across reboots). > > > > > > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread gevisz
2018-02-09 0:50 GMT+02:00 Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor : > From: freemanr...@gmail.com on behalf of Rich > Freeman > Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 5:38 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp on tmpfs > > Just adding my 2 cents EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--fail-clean" h

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 8 Feb 2018 23:18:19 +, Wol's lists wrote: > > More specifically, /var/tmp is traditionally supposed to be > > non-volatile (across reboots). > > > > Comparatively the contents of /tmp can be volatile (across reboots). > > > > I would advise against mounting /var/tmp on tmpfs. > >