Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs

2014-10-14 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/14/2014 06:36 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > CentOS 7.0, however, was a mess. > It took three attempts and almost an entire day of work. I run it on my home server. It works pretty well for me. > My first attempt was to use the "minimal" ISO image so that I would > have the option of burning a C

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SDcard updates tactics

2014-10-06 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/06/2014 11:29 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > There are two SDcards of the same brand and model. > The first one cariies a not so current Gentoo Linux. > The second one is empty. > Now the first one is image-copied to the second one with dd, > which copies the contents of the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: > I did some googling and enabled the "appropriate" kernel drivers, then > rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: > > wlan0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 > ether b8:a3:86:99:a8:d8 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) > RX packets 0 b

Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.

2014-09-30 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Suppose the GPS would already be attached > to the board and works... > > Is there any free available software and data for > strict offline useage (which does NOT calls > to home), which is able to map GPS data to a street/land > map? > I need

Re: [gentoo-user] Is kde really buggy or it is me?!

2014-09-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/18/2014 10:15 AM, Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday 18 September 2014 09:18:16 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> On 09/18/2014 09:15 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote: >>>> Hi. >>>> I have just installed the kde desktop. I like the overall

Re: [gentoo-user] Is kde really buggy or it is me?!

2014-09-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/18/2014 09:15 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > Hi. > I have just installed the kde desktop. I like the overall experience > but its kind of buggy. For example the last problem that I had, system > setting was not responding till the next reboot. > I have not used kde before so, I was wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/18/2014 05:17 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 17/09/2014 21:20, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for >> Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is >> not good unless you're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/17/2014 10:40 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: > Fact is if it's _you_ that seems to give a tweet about systemd speed, > so it's on _you_ to measure it, I don't really care what you think. The > fact that you think pid1's speed or resource usage might be a big deal > is very indicative on how b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
Mark David Dumlao wrote: > The code is out there. Freely available. Both systemd and sysvinit. > If you wanted to measure both, you could, literally, in the time it > took since you first posted in this thread till now you could have > measured several times and left mean comments about whichever >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-17 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is not good unless you're doing a massively parallel read (what it was designed for). I can elaborate why if anyone is actually interested. We use Lustre for our

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-16 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
We use bcfg2, and all I can say is to stay away. XML abuse runs rampant in bcfg2. From what I've heard from other professional sysadmins, Puppet is the favorite, but that's mostly conjecture. Alec On 09/16/2014 04:43 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/c

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post build files

2014-09-11 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/11/2014 03:08 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > Anyways, I'll try and look at Maven. Not making any promises; I'm > pretty busy right now. Alec Also, feel free to message me directly James. I don't want to spam the list with what will probably be a lot of small bugs and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post build files

2014-09-11 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/11/2014 12:20 PM, James wrote: > Yes, I've been all over this. It's onto much of the Apache clustering > codes that are not simple to configure in the ebuild. Besides the raw > packege codes, like mesos, spark, scala, cassandra, etc there are a > mulitude of fast moving codes written in Java

Re: [gentoo-user] post build files

2014-09-09 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/09/2014 11:20 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm rather new to hacking ebuilds. I have read most every doc > I can find on the subject. One thing I'm looking for is a post-build > document that shows me the path/name of everything built. > > So for mesos-0.20.0 it seems to be: > > /var/db/pkg/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting boot flag on sda1

2014-09-05 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/05/2014 04:11 PM, Joseph wrote: > > With a GPT partition and old BIOS 2008 system, I need to set the > bootable flag on the protective MSDOS partition. Thats all the BIOS > can see. > > I need to use an older fdisk and ignore the dire warning about a GPT > partition table being detected. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-02 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 09/02/2014 01:26 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 07:10:46 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> I just did as you suggested >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 >> dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140828.iso >> of=/dev/sdb sync >> >> make no difference, the USB st

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-19 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Tue 19 Aug 2014 05:34:40 AM EDT, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:53:51 AM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Mon 18 Aug 2014 10:50:23 AM EDT, Rich Freeman wrote: >>> Hadoop is a very specialized tool. It does what it does very well, >>> but if you w

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Mon 18 Aug 2014 10:50:23 AM EDT, Rich Freeman wrote: > Hadoop is a very specialized tool. It does what it does very well, > but if you want to use it for something other than map/reduce then > consider carefully whether it is the right tool for the job. Agreed; unless you have decent hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater constantly rebuilds one same package

2014-08-14 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Thu 14 Aug 2014 11:57:53 AM EDT, Сергей wrote: > I have looked at dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r4 and > dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 ebuilds and compared them. > dev-libs/libgamin-0.1.10-r5 has PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" (r4 had no > PYTHON_TARGETS) and now python-updater doesn't rebuild libgamin. Se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: pthreads condition variable/mutex question

2014-08-13 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed 13 Aug 2014 04:19:19 PM EDT, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-08-13, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >>> I may have to stick with sockets when I want to block until some event >>> happens. >> >> To be clear, do you want to block or sleep/yield until an e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: pthreads condition variable/mutex question

2014-08-13 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed 13 Aug 2014 03:23:21 PM EDT, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-08-13, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> 2014-08-13 12:21 GMT-05:00 Grant Edwards : > >> Without knowing what you're doing, this sounds like a bad idea; if >> you *need* to synchronize threads, why aren&

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: pthreads condition variable/mutex question

2014-08-13 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
2014-08-13 12:21 GMT-05:00 Grant Edwards : > This is not Gentoo specific, and while I'm doing my prototyping and > development on a Gentoo system, the eventual target is not going to be > running Gentoo -- so feel free to ignore this thread or throw things > at me. You're close enough ;) I'll try

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-13 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Wed 13 Aug 2014 03:10:22 AM EDT, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Bash is also like that, omfg; bash seems to have been designed to make > decent code fundamentally impossible to write... I mean, if you're trying to write anything more than a screenful in Bash you should definitely use Ruby or Python IMN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-08 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri 08 Aug 2014 02:29:55 AM EDT, J. Roeleveld wrote: > If you already make custom RPMs, why not build binary packages for a Gentoo > based cluster? I was mistaken last night (probably a little tired, been driving all day) - we use RedHat for the support and because the software we run usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
> Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance filesystems and schedulers, which are apparently a real pain. > Whilst research, I ran ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
I'm a Hadoop and related software sysadmin at the University of Michigan. I'm a student still, so it's only a part-time position. I have some documentation at http://caen.github.io/hadoop - if something is not clear, I will gladly take feedback and make appropriate changes. > In a recent thread

Re: [gentoo-user] colord failed to upgrade

2014-07-31 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
I can't comment on a long-term, real, proper solution, but for right now emerge --oneshot dev-perl/XML-Parser should at least allow you to continue building colord. On Thu 31 Jul 2014 09:58:17 AM EDT, Gevisz wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:36:38 +0200 > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 31/07/20

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-31 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>> okular is not a 'stinking pdf reader'. Nice try. But just like konqueror >>> it is just a wrapper around kparts and is able to deal with a lot more >>> files than just pdf and postscript. >>> >>> That is what 'modular' and 'code reuse' really mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
> okular is not a 'stinking pdf reader'. Nice try. But just like konqueror > it is just a wrapper around kparts and is able to deal with a lot more > files than just pdf and postscript. > > That is what 'modular' and 'code reuse' really means. > > And the opposite to what gnome does. 'oh, there is

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-29 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
> Also, when setting up a new system, make USE flag changes gradually. > Unless you are sure of what you are doing, only change a few at a time. Haha, just got frustrated with how much junk is on my machine and globally disabled perl, python, ruby, and a bunch of other stuff. Bad times ensued ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-25 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
with --keep-going and figured it out in > hindsight? > > It failed immediately, I did not use --keep-going. > > >Did you do a deep update before doing all of this? > > Yes. > > >2. Attach the full build log > > It's too long to include in the message bo

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-22 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
Wow, running Steam on Hardened. Seems ambitious. I'll try and help as much as possible. Can you: 1. Reply with a list of actions/commands you did that led up to this point 2. Attach the full build log Also > They originally got rebuilt (and I noticed the failure) Do you mean I tried to instal

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-22 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
emulation enabled but none of its suboptions (I read I > don't need them). > > Sorry about the lines running off, my client does not auto-wrap with > newlines and it > seems yours does not either. > > . > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel > mailto:a.

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc (and gcc) build fails: /bin/sh: /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/glibc-2.17/work/build-x86-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-nptl/sunrpc/cross-rpcgen: No such file or directory

2014-07-22 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
I've had some problems with this in the past on non-hardened... you have IA32 emulation turned on in the kernel right? Also, not sure if this is just me, but the really long lines (like the top 4) run off the end of my screen and I can't see them at all. Alec On Tue 22 Jul 2014 09:48:54 AM EDT

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