Re: [gentoo-user] drivers for INTEL integrated GPU?

Agree with Joost that Intel is typically well supported in LInux. I have Skylate (gen6) system which i got fairly soon after they were released and had no issues setting it up using ~amd64. If you want to run amd64 instead you might need to keyword the kernel and X stuff. On firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

I did that already. > Gives me a lot of files with unrelated names. > Think of your GENTOO box with all names renamed > to something like > > [index number].[filetype] > > . So you got back your data but cannot use > it, since the names got lost. > > For images this is not a big

Re: [gentoo-user] Network device polling -> web interface

> librenms I've run it up, and things certainly have moved on since the MRTG days! However, it doesnt seem to give things like IP addresses, routes etc. I'm thinking i probably need something more "asset database"y. AFAIK the monitoring side is already in hand. I believe the users may want to,

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

> I got mixed results: There are three partitions on the sdcard from > which I could fully recover (even mount it directly via loop device) > the first and the third one. > > The second one is screwed up. > > Running fsch.ext4 against the image it starts with "bad superblock" > and suggests two

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

> Currently I am ddresucueing the flashcard to the harddisc. >>> Next I will try to mount the sdcard. >>> >>> I hope you meant to say "mount the sdcard image". Once ddrescue has done its best, you wont try to use the sdcard again. Also, you probably want to copy the image first, because when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT - My new SSD.

ce. > That was a guess on my behalf - i know that M2 disks can come in SATA or NVMe, but I dont know if NVMe drives can fallback to SATA. > > > Could well be older hardware or less PCIe slots/lanes. > > My $ hdparm -tT /dev/nvme0n1 speeds haven't improved since enabling MSI > in the kernel. > Ah well, its only a simple synthetic benchmark. Adam

Re: [gentoo-user] The sudden disappearance of ....WHAT??? (I/O error on a SD flash card?!)

Step 1: dd the contents into an image ddrescue is probably a better option than plain dd. step 2: put the sdcard to one side. > step 3: loopback mount a copy of the image (not the original) > step 4: try recovering the filesystem on the loopback, if it fails ... try > something else on another

[gentoo-user] Network device polling -> web interface

Hi All, Looking for a software recommendation. I want to be able to supply a list of IPs and SNMP community strings as input, then store the query results (eg interface info, route tables etc) in a database with a web interface. WIll be <100 devices. What would you recommend?

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT - My new SSD.

> That, indeed, seems to to be the case. When I do cat /proc/interrupts | > egrep '(CPU/nvm)', I get just the header line with one data line: > >CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 > 17: 0 0 15 14605 IO-APIC 17-fasteoi > ehci_hcd:usb1, nvme0q0,

Re: [gentoo-user] Some Addtions to: mpv startup times...is this guy waiting for soemthing ?

Try turning off the cache just to see if that affects the start time, --cache=no. This would only be an issue if the file loading is slow. Otherwise try running it with strace to see what's happening during the dead time. strace mpv

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT - My new SSD.

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 3:36 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've just bought myself a Samsung NVMe 960 EVO M.2 SSD. > > Some timings: > > An emerge -puND @world (when there's nothing to merge) took 38.5s. With > my mirrored HDDs, this took 45.6s. (Though usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting to mirror - filesystem maintained or need to restore

Thanks guys. I re-created md127, mkfs'd and restored the files. Was just getting confused with what is possible in solaris.

[gentoo-user] Converting to mirror - filesystem maintained or need to restore

IIRC when you add a device to a mirror say with; mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md127 --level=mirror --raid-devices=1 --force /dev/sdb3 I thought the filesystem is maintained and so /dev/md127 should be immediately mountable, however, it doesnt mount. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad

Re: [gentoo-user] ttyUSB not showing up

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 3:47 PM, wrote: > I have serial to USB converter, want to connect fax/modem to it. > > In kernel: > CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=y > CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y > CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y > CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y > CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD_PCI=y > #

[gentoo-user] OT: shell question, maybe xargs?

I have one command that dumps out a number of lines of output, and i want to have another command run multiple times taking a single line contents as its argument(s) each time. From what i understand of xargs it takes all the piped input and runs a command once with each of the piped inputs as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No room left on /boot

> You don't need a /boot partition ;-) > > /boot is just a directory here. Worked like that for years and years. > > Yeah you just need to have a partitiion, filesystem and hardware that grub can see, right? This is practically everything tho, eg for filesystems;

Re: [gentoo-user] three quarter of network access with new root...

> since > > ping startpage.com > > results in "unknown host" all the commands > will not be able to resolve startpage.com. > > By the way: > > dig ANY startpage.com > > results in nothing even on my working old root. > > > Try nslookup startpage.com 8.8.8.8 If it works, your DNS is not

Re: [gentoo-user] Access device on 192.168.1.1 network

> > --- > arp -a > > ? (192.168.0.100) at on net0 > DD-WRT (10.0.0.1) at 90:e6:ba:2e:ec:5c [ether] on net0 > ? (192.168.1.100) at 00:09:45:41:73:d1 [ether] on net0 > This shows that the IP is correct and communication may be possible. > When I boot and try WAN port the device gets

Re: [gentoo-user] Access device on 192.168.1.1 network

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 7:07 PM, wrote: > On 02/12/2017 01:01 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > My local network is 10.0.0.1 - > > > > I have an external device that is pre-set from factory to 192.168.1.100 > and I need to access to it via browser to change its

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap - device name.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 1:09 PM, wrote: > On 02/10/2017 06:34 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > When I scan my local network: > > nmap -sn 10.10.0.0/24 > > > > It prints all the devices connected to it but sometimes it prints the > > device "name" and sometimes it

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble updating texlive

Probably a good idea to quickpkg before unmerging in case things break. Also check what gets added to /var/lib/portage/world to make sure dependencies haven't been added when you re-install. You could take a copy of that file before you start so you can diff them after, or use -p and --tree

Re: [gentoo-user] tor browser also anti-fingerprinting

Tor-browser doesnt appear to be in portage, but you can just download it, extract the tarball and run it (no compilation/installation required). https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html To run it without the tor network: "Upper right hand side of Tor Browser click on the three

Re: [gentoo-user] tor browser also anti-fingerprinting

> > > Hi Adam, > > > > would it possible to re-configure a Tor-Browser to use the "normal > > web" instead of the tor-network? > > > I see you asked Adam, but this is trivial. Tor-Browser is just Firefox, > modified and improved in some ways. &

[gentoo-user] tor browser also anti-fingerprinting

I said in a recent thread that tor was an ip obfuscation tool, but also "Tor Browser normalizes many browser outputs to mitigate existing browser fingerprinting," according to;

Re: [gentoo-user] wget SSL authentication problem?

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Miroslav Rovis < miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > On 170111-22:57-0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I'm trying to pull down a text file with a script. A web browser works > > fine, but wget dies as follows... > > > At first I thought I had the same issue (will

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo-sources-4.9.0

h my Tonga card. I get nothing after OS selection in grub, and this system goes to console not straight into GUI. My other two systems boot fine with 4.9 and VMAP (Radeon 4250, Intel 530). -Adam

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved rebuild failure with python

Also, what's your $PYTHON_TARGETS ?

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved rebuild failure with python

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:37 PM, allan gottlieb wrote: > I can't complete an emerge @preserved-rebuild due to the lack of > python3.3. > > However, I read the news article and have set the python3 interpreter to > python3.4 > >allan ~ # eselect python list --python3 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

I’ve just made an arch chroot and downloaded the files of > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/amdgpu-pro/ (makepkg -o after cloning > the git) > > I obtain this : > https://bulbizarre.swordarmor.fr/garbage/amdgpu-pro-installer/ > The file is there - thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On 11/01/2016 12:38 AM, Alecks Gates wrote: > > I've uploaded it for your convenience. > > > > https://keybase.pub/agates/amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-306809.tar.xz > > > Alecks - what kernel version are you using with this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

> > I've uploaded it for your convenience. > > > > https://keybase.pub/agates/amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-306809.tar.xz > > > > Oops, it looks like mine is slightly older than what you're looking for. > Hmm. > > There's ebuilds for that version too - i'll try it if i cant get the later file. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

> > It's actually still available from AMD. Maybe not actually linked. > > Using google, I found a forum-post on ubuntu mentioning it and the > following > worked for me: > > wget https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-315407.tar.xz > Yes i already tried that, but it fails for me.

[gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

The farmboy0 and vulcan overlays are looking for amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-315407.tar.xz but i can only find the current driver, amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864.tar.xz on amd's site. Is the older file still available anywhere?

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

Checked rsync11.us.gentoo.org and its the same as rsync.au.gentoo.org/ftp.cc.swin.edu.au.

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 29/10/16 14:53, Daniel Campbell wrote: > >> On 10/28/2016 09:56 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Anyone seeing this again? I've just sync'd to two servers in >>> Australia, and then, for the hell of it, one in

Re: [gentoo-user] Webkit-gtk yelp and dependencies

...my PC is seven year old... The changes were software (kernel) based, so would apply to any hardware. Its about contention rather than outright performance.

Re: [gentoo-user] Webkit-gtk yelp and dependencies

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:51 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > this morning it happens again: net-libs/webkit-gtk was > updated. > For me it means: For a longer time as convenient full > load on the all cores of the CPU of my GENTOO box, > higher CPU temperatures as usual and laggy

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

It doesn't look like just vim - it looks like exiftool, graphite2, > cups-filters, gvim, and imagemagick all are blocking. > > I'd guess that these packages need a version bump or you need to unmask > one of the newer builds (most likely they haven't been stabilized yet.) > Agree - my amd64

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

> > ?!?! I've never had evdev installed. Why now? Mouse and keyboard > work OK. > I thought evdev was the contemporary way of doing things (its in the gentoo guides), but after a bit of reading it seems more complicated than that. Ignore my post.

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

> Device Drivers ---> > Graphics support ---> > <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > ---> > --- Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > [*] Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver > ...and also... >

Re: [gentoo-user] XOrg / XRanR segfault starting X

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Dave Trombley wrote: > Hi all! > >New to Gentoo, just followed the handbook install for amd64 and then > for XOrg. > > I'm seeing the server segfault on 'startx'. Here is the console > output (and I've attached the logfile). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm putting together a new desktop using a Samsung SM951 NVMe drive. I > booted sysrescd, partitioned the drive and ran > > mkfs.btrfs /dev/nvme0n1p3 > mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/custom > > df -T, mount and findmnt all

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

I've added the directory, and after restarting syslog now has new entries; > kernel: [912267.948883] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 > state recovery directory > kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery > directory > > I will test shortly and report

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

> >> I don't use systemd on Gentoo but for the nfs-utils upstream-shipped > >> systemd units that I think that Gentoo's using, you have to re-run > >> nfs-config.service - or run the script that it calls - in order to > >> update the "/run/sysconfig/nfs-utils" environment file that's sourced > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing CPU options in make menuconfig

The experimental use flag turns on the other arch's in gentoo-sources. Perhaps that will help identify which is the relevant patch? On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/20/2016 07:38 PM,

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

Are the nfsd versions that you're setting being respected? You can > check with "rpcinfo -s" or "cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions". > Yep; # cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions -2 +3 +4 +4.1 +4.2 > You can change the number of threads on the fly with "echo 1 > > /proc/fs/nfsd/threads". > That works too,

[gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

I'm trying to troubleshoot a newly setup nfs server, which, sometimes has a 30 second pause (tcpdump shows its server waiting). # time touch /usr/portage/distfiles/testfile real0m30.088s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s I cant see anything in the nfs server debugging so i want to strace

Re: [gentoo-user] Keep alive within SSH session

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Mick wrote: > I am not sure of the correct approach to achieve a prolonged remote > debugging > session through SSH and avoid the SSH session timing out. > > This is what I try to achieve: > > I login into a router with SSH from my PC.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

> > Just top be clear: I'm pretty sure that's not _extracting_ the audio, but > _transcoding_ it. > > The midentify output in my original post shows the audio to be AAC. Extraction is; ffmpeg -i "input file.mp4" -acodec copy "output file.aac" Man page; " Stream copy Stream copy is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and VPN, plus security in generla

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran up on a video website that had some info on it. I found it > interesting and was curious about what it said and another question I > been wondering about. It mentioned using a VPN so that the NSA, my ISP >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to try custom-optimization in firefox

You missed another flag: USE="custom-cflags". You should really > read USE flag descriptions (/usr/portage/use.{,local.}desc): > > custom-cflags - Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported) > www-client/firefox:custom-optimization - Fine-tune custom compiler > optimizations (-Os, -O0, -O1,

Re: [gentoo-user] [A bit off-topic] Bash alias and

Another option is to suspend the foreground process (ctrl-Z) then you can background it by typing bg, which will resume running and put it in the background. # sleep 10 ^Z [1]+ Stopped sleep 10 m # bg [1]+ sleep 10 & #

[gentoo-user] How to try custom-optimization in firefox

I have enabled this use flag and the output of emerge --info shows it has been recognised in USE but not in FCFLAGs/CFLAGs; grep USE.*custom ff* ffafter-cust-opt.txt:USE="custom-optimization dbus gmp-autoupdate gtk2 hwaccel jemalloc3 jit pulseaudio -bindist -custom-cflags -debug -hardened (-neon)

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blank screen when trying to start gdm

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:43 AM, wrote: > Hi. Since about the end of March, I have been unable to use gnome and > even gdm. I am using the gnome overlay and I am using unstable gentoo > and nvidia drivers. I get a blank screen when I start gdm, orca just > comes up,

[gentoo-user] Auto-keyword to get perl 5.22?

If i keyword perl to get 5.22, emerge reports the issues below. Is there any way to encourage emerge to offer me some auto keywording config, or are some of the modules just not ready for 5.22 yet? Thanks [ebuild R] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo USE="berkdb gdbm -debug -doc

Re: [gentoo-user] Open-Channel SSD target support option

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello all, > > In the new stable kernel configuration (4.4.6-gentoo-sources) there is the > option : > > *Open-Channel SSD target support (NVM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?* > > *CONFIG_NVM:* > Unless you have a NVMe motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran. > > The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use > sys-boot/gummiboot. > Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief not to have to > grapple with grub's baroque complexity and to be able to return to

Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Corsair power supplies suck nuts. > > Here's proof: > > > Testing a 12V rail, scope set to 100mv/horizontal line relative to how > you would normally look at a scope. > Is your sample size=1? If so, then the evidence

Re: [gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Lee wrote: > Thanks! > FWIW i also used ~amd64 gcc, and; CFLAGS="-march=broadwell -O2 -pipe" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"

Re: [gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Lee wrote: > New Clevo W670RZQ Laptop with 6th Gen i7 cpu, hm170 Intel chipset and on- > board graphics. > > Will the latest stable kernel and firmware packages work with it? Will the > most recent minimal install disc be adequate for my needs,

Re: [gentoo-user] installing LTSP

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:18 PM, hw wrote: > hw wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set up an ltsp server. It seems >> that one of the required packages is no longer >> available: >> >> >> >>> Downloading ' >>

Re: [gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

> > If it's build using debug options, looking with GDB where it fail would be > much more useful than a random dependency graph. > Its not at the moment, but i can try that. > > It's intriguing that it default just after doing a mmap: > > mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, >

Re: [gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

(dev-libs/mpfr) amd64 `-- dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1 (dev-libs/boost) amd64 `-- x11-libs/qscintilla-2.8.4-r1 (x11-libs/qscintilla) amd64 [ media-gfx/openscad-2015.03 stats: packages (11), max depth (1) ] Looks like cgal and eigen are different, so i'll try downgrading cgal and upgrading eigen. Thanks, Adam

[gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

I can open the program ok, but when I click on New it seg faults. Strace of its death below. I tried recompiling it and all its immediate dependencies. How do i troubleshoot this? Cheers. ioctl(10, 0xc020645e, 0x7ffc4f7bd9c0) = 0 mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 10,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.x and (probably) event issues

> 1. After successful boot, I've noticed, that buttons above the > touchpad[1] stopped working. Tried to debug the thing, but they do > nothing even under xev or in showkey - seems like they dead. Didn't find > anything interesting by searching the net. > Longshot (since i've had one instance in

Re: [gentoo-user] SSLv2 is back today (gone tomorrow?)

The relevant bug is here > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 > > If you have sslv2 enabled, your choices are clear: > > 1. high likelihood of wholesale breakage, or > 2. wait a little longer for a proper fix > > Obviously -r1 is ideal as it disables sslv2. If you have it and it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

FYI for anyone concerned about this latest issue "DROWN" - its only a problem if SSLv2 is enabled. SSLv2 has been broken for a long time, so should be disabled. However, if it is exposed then an attacker can retrieve the private key, and in doing so will be able to also decrypt secure TLS 1.2+

[gentoo-user] Handbook instructions for UEFI

First attempt at a GPT/UEFI install. Instructions in the Handbook say that for a UEFI system, prepare the disk as; Partition Filesystem Size Description /dev/sda1 (bootloader) 2M BIOS boot partition /dev/sda2 ext2 (or vfat) 128M Boot partition to end up with;

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

> Yes, I already tried that and didn't get any traffic listed. > In that case it sounds like linux has bridged them across from the other interface. Does this find anything? tcpdump -i enp2s0 net 192.168.1.0/24 If it doesn't maybe generate some layer2 broadcast traffic on enp1s0 to see if you

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

> > grandstream.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.80) auf 00:0b:82:16:ed:9e [ether] auf > enp2s0 > grandstream.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.80) auf 00:0b:82:16:ed:9e [ether] auf > enp1s0 > spa.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.81) auf 88:75:56:07:44:c8 [ether] auf enp2s0 > spa.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.81) auf 88:75:56:07:44:c8

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

> Even after adding the static routes and creating firewall rules to drop > all traffic from the devices to the internet, their arp entries continue > to be renewed. How is that possible? > > Your iptables rules are IP based (layer 3), so will not match arp traffic (layer 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

> They are wrong because there is no way for network traffic from the > devices on the LAN to make it to the interface enp2s0. Or, if they do > make it there, then there is something else seriously wrong. > tcpdump -i enp2s0 arp will tell you if the arps are being generated from something on

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

heduled for merge) dev-libs/libgudev On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:35 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Dec 17, 2015 9:37 PM, "Adam Carter" <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The gudev USE flag is deprecated from systemd, and the functionality

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 5:00 AM, Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Still blocked - anything else i should try? > > Perhaps your ABI_X86 flags are mismatched. > > You keep truncating/editing the emerge output, so we have to make > guesse

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

emerge -1avt systemd These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] sys-apps/systemd-218-r5:0/2::gentoo USE="acl gudev introspection kmod lz4 pam policykit python seccomp ssl (-apparmor) -audit -cryptsetup -curl -doc -elfutils

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

See if SMART knows anything - run this against each drive (change $DRV to sda etc each time) smartctl -a /dev/$DRV | egrep '(^ID|Reallocated_Sector_C|Reported_Uncorrectable_Er|Command_Timeout|Current_Pending_Sect|Offline_Uncorre)'

[gentoo-user] systemd, libgudev and bug 552036

The gudev USE flag is deprecated from systemd, and the functionality is now provided by libgudev (see bug 552036). However, i get the following block; # emerge -a1 =sys-apps/systemd-226-r2 dev-libs/libgudev These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] resolving names of local hosts locally

There are several problems with your idea. First, the configured > namservers in resolv.conf are caching servers, not authoritative > servers. You never configure an auth server to act as a cache. Yes, it > can be done. No, it's an awful idea and things break horribly. > > Hi Alan, What breaks

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you use for appliances with old SSL?

> > A less onerous method, but potentially more insecure unless you revert the > setting for day to day usage, is to type 'about:config' and set > security.tls.version.min to 0, before you restart FF. > > Restarting doesnt help (with FF 42 at least). Message is "Firefox cannot guarantee the safety

[gentoo-user] What do you use for appliances with old SSL?

It seems like modern browsers don't have the option to support old crypto, eg on firefox setting security.version.tls.min to 0 still blocks SSLv3. What do you use to access old equipment?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: TCP listen overflows

I dont know what that error means, but default webserver and TCP stack options may not be helping. I investigated a Centos box with resources issues a while back. It had many thousands of sockets in TIME_WAIT state. IIRC i reduced /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout from 60 to 15, and enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.481 available; patches exploit

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:14 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: That version is not available after a sync a couple of hours ago. https://packages.gentoo.org/package/www-plugins/adobe-flash Try a different mirror.

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

Here's HP's recommended list if you choose to go that way http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/recommended.html And for supported: http://www.hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices/index.html

Re: [gentoo-user] new scanner : any advice ?

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 150622 Adam Carter wrote: Here's HP's recommended list if you choose to go that way http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/recommended.html And for supported: http://www.hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/supported_devices

[gentoo-user] SSDs with TRIM issues

/* devices that don't properly handle queued TRIM commands */ Micron_M500* Crucial_CT*M500* Micron_M5[15]0* Crucial_CT*M550* Crucial_CT*MX100* Samsung SSD 8* from drivers/ata/libata-core.c More info:

[gentoo-user] hdparm / mutlisect

I have 1 ssd and 2 spinners in a system. hdparm reports that multcount=0, and hdparm -i reports MultSect=off on the ssd (only). Are mulitcount and MultiSect the same thing? Why would it be disabled by default on the ssd?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com wrote: On Thursday, May 28, 2015 6:01:22 PM Adam Carter wrote: How do you tell that the library is loaded by firefox? Load a page with a plugin then run htop, you may see a few plugin-container child

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

There's no firefox-bin in /usr/bin on my system, there's just # ls -l /usr/bin/firefox* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 9 19:13 /usr/bin/firefox - /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox And in that directory, again no shell script; # file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

There's no firefox-bin in /usr/bin on my system, there's just # ls -l /usr/bin/firefox* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 May 9 19:13 /usr/bin/firefox - /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox And in that directory, again no shell script; # file /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote: Adam Carter wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote: Look at usually means Read the file - look at the content ;) Lets pretend for one minute that i'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Holger Hoffstätte holger.hoffstae...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2015 09:54:33 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: Is this working looking into? The programs generally work ok, so this is more for interests sake. # ldd /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin

[gentoo-user] plugin-containers missing libraries

Is this working looking into? The programs generally work ok, so this is more for interests sake. # ldd /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container | grep not libmozalloc.so = not found libxul.so = not found # ldd /usr/lib64/thunderbird/plugin-container | grep not libxul.so = not found # find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: plugin-containers missing libraries

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Franz Fellner alpine.art...@gmail.com wrote: Look at usually means Read the file - look at the content ;) Lets pretend for one minute that i'm a dumbass. In what way would I read a binary executable, and how is that relevant to plugin-container?

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGs for kernel compilation

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: - I don't like invoking 'CFLAGS=-O2 -march=foomake' - I don't want to set CFLAGS as a persistent environment variable. Does the kernel building use the CFLAGS at all? You probably want CFLAGS_KERNEL and maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo announces total website makeover :-)

I love the serial console style cursor sweep across the screen. Ahh that takes me back.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mysterious vanishing of DNS entry of www.youtube.com...was I hacked?

The second argument to both host and nslookup, specifies the server to use for the lookup. So, you can compare the results of the DNS server specified in /etc/resolv.conf, with others like those mentioned above, eg host youtube.com 8.8.8.8 or nslookup youtube.com 4.2.2.4 However, youtube.com will

Re: [gentoo-user] See bootup/poweroff screen?

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:58 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: I have a SSD in my laptop and the system boots really fast so I can't see the details of the warnings it displays. Are there any way to scroll the screen or see some system boot's logs? Try; dmesg | less And you may also

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd net interfaces always want a default route?

If it's a static network (meaning, the computer does not usually moves physically), why don't you use a .network unit file (man 5 systemd.network)? I'm converting my configs over to that now. Thanks. Another question - i have a wired interface that's always on, and wireless interface that

Re: [gentoo-user] saslauthd startup parameters

where are we supposed to set the parameters for saslauthd? I edited /etc/init.d/saslauthd, and that's probably not the right place to put them? There's probably a saslauthd file in /etc/conf.d

Re: [gentoo-user] mtp stops working after system re-install

= [d531][root][~] /usr/bin/mtpfs /mnt/drive1 Device 0 (VID=0bb4 and PID=0ca8) is a HTC EVO 4G LTE/One V (ID2). Android device detected, assigning default bug flags fuse: device not found, try 'modprobe fuse' first

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