[gentoo-user] Heads-up: grub-mkconfig generates bad configs for root-on-ZFS with fully-updated pool

This is a quick heads-up for folks who use grub, have their root filesystem on ZFS and boot from it with an initramfs (i.e. not directly from grub), and have fully upgraded their pool to 2.2.2. In that configuration, grub-mkconfig (grub-probe, actually) fails to recognize the pool, and it

[gentoo-user] Re: Debugging NFS mounts

Peter Humphrey wrote on 19.11.2023 16:12: Yes, indeed. In fact I don't know why this has only just bitten me; I've been doing the same thing for years without problem. That search turns up so many answers that I don't know where to start, even prefixing the phrase with "gentoo". Most of them

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 5.15.11 won't boot

Neil Bothwick wrote on 28/12/2021 14:40: > So the bootloader has loaded the kernel but then there is absolutely > nothing. I tried removing the initrd option, but then it went straight to > a blank screen without the above message. I left it for a while, in case > it was just a case of no output,

[gentoo-user] Re: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not

Dale wrote on 15/06/2021 16:21: > Ramon Fischer wrote: >> Hello Dale, >> >> this also happens to me sometimes and the culprit was an open process >> still accessing the hard drive. Maybe you can solve it like this: >> >>    $ lsof /mnt/8tb >>    zsh   8390 root  cwd    DIR  253,2  4096

[gentoo-user] Re: New thunderbird filter messages

William Kenworthy wrote on 30/10/2020 03:52: >     the old thunderbird mail reader had a handy "filter messages" field > that made filtering mails in the header panel easy - this has > disappeared leaving only global search or a very clumsy filter dialog.  > Have they removed it, or is it hidden

[gentoo-user] Re: Troubles setting USE flag for inkscape

tu...@posteo.de wrote on 25/04/2020 17:55: > Beside other permutations I add this to package.use > > media-gfx/inkscape python_single_target_python3_8 Try this instead: media-gfx/inkscape PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_8 -- Remy

[gentoo-user] Re: Incorrect list of groups membership

> After a reboot, the problem disappears for a while, but comes again, > and I didn't find what could trigger it. > I can't figure what KDE could have to do with user groups returned by > the kernel ! > > Does anyone have a hint on the origin of this problem ? Yes, this is triggered by

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

Michael Orlitzky wrote on 2017-10-29 14:16: > And then the real issue: no one knows what our cronbase is doing, and it > does whatever it does all wrong -- but some people are probably relying > on it. My proposal was to make cronbase stupider, with something like > > 9 5 * * * root find

[gentoo-user] FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

To save others some time investigating why their daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs (those located in /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}) run twice when transitioning from DST to non-DST, it's a bug in /usr/sbin/run-crons (yes, you've read the bug number correctly).

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel modules: initramfs vs. /lib/modules

Daniel Frey wrote on 2017-02-13 17:34: > On 02/13/2017 03:34 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> Anytime you see something like root=UUID=* that is being handled by an >> initramfs. And of course a UUID is more reliable than a device name, >> since the latter can change if you add/remove a device, or

[gentoo-user] Re: strange dependency conflict

wabe wrote on 2017-01-15 20:28: > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I > update my system: > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > WARNING: One or more

[gentoo-user] Re: NVMe drive and grub

pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote on 2016-04-08 11:01: > Remy Blank <remy.bl...@pobox.com> wrote : > >> pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk >> wrote on 2016-04-07 17:24: >>> I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 >> interface. The drive sh

[gentoo-user] Re: NVMe drive and grub

pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote on 2016-04-07 17:24: > I have a new box with an NVMe SSD drive attached to the PCI bus via an M.2 > interface. The drive shows up as /dev/nvme0n1, with partitions > /dev/nvme0n1p1, /dev/nvme0n1p2, ... > > After following the instructions in the handbook for a UEFI

[gentoo-user] Re: Open RC problem?

Neil Bothwick wrote on 2015-12-04 23:11: > On Fri, 04 Dec 2015 17:05:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> Thanks for the reply, Alan. I did some more poking around and found >> that removing zerotier-one and netmount from the default run-level >> fixed it. Or maybe it was just coincidence again -

[gentoo-user] Making sense of reported ZFS disk usage

I'm trying to make sense of the disk usage reported by "zfs list". Here's what I get: $ zfs list \ -o name,used,avail,refer,usedbydataset,usedbychildren,usedbysnapshots \ -t all NAME USED AVAIL REFER USEDDS USEDCHILD USEDSNAP pool/data58.0G 718G 46.7G 46.7G

[gentoo-user] Re: Making sense of reported ZFS disk usage

Jeremi Piotrowski wrote on 2015-10-31 15:25: > USEDSNAP refers to _data_ that is not in pool/data but in the snapshots. > The value for USED is _data_ that is only present in *this one* snapshot, > and not in any other snapshots or in pool/data. _data_ that is shared > between atleast two

[gentoo-user] Re: Making sense of reported ZFS disk usage

Remy Blank wrote on 2015-10-31 16:35: > I guess I was looking for something like "how much data is shared > between this snapshot and the next one", but since there's no link > between snapshots (only between the dataset and the snapshots), ZFS > can't provide it in &quo

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Is it just me? No, I observe the same symptoms here. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: ZFS wiki confusion

Douglas J Hunley wrote: Do you really need to copy the files into the kernel tree? No, you don't need to do that. which seems to pull in the daemon and the kmod so wouldn't the zfs-kmod ebuild build against the current kernel and drop in the modules directory all by itself much like any of

[gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

Alan McKinnon wrote: But I was not able to make the problem re-appear in short reboot cycles. So whatever is hanging the box is something that starts up in the course of work, it doesn't appear to be there directly after a KDE login. I have observed that kded4 and nepomukserver sometimes

[gentoo-user] Re: /home doesn't umount on shutdown

Dale wrote: Care to share that script? ;-) May try that myself. Sure, here it is: $ cat .kde4/shutdown/cleanup-kde-processes #!/bin/bash log() { logger -t $(basename $0) $1 } is_running() { killall -0 -u $USER $1 } kill_if_running() { sleep 15 is_running startkde return 0

[gentoo-user] Re: How to set-up shutdown-only user?

Jarry wrote: Or is there maybe some other way how to create very restricted account where user could not do anything else but call shutdown? - Create a local account for the user. - Disable local login (passwd -l). - Set up SSH public key authentication for the account. - In

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

Grant Edwards wrote: That comment was from _Ted_Ts'o_ for pete's sake. When Ted T'so blows his nose, it's full of technical content. That just made my day. Thanks :) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: change python version for special program

Michael Mol wrote: I'm surprised you had to take the setup.py install route. Is scons not available in someone's overlay? It's in portage: $ equery list -p -o scons * Searching for scons ... [-P-] [ ] dev-util/scons-2.0.1:0 [-P-] [ ~] dev-util/scons-2.0.1-r1:0 [-P-] [ ]

[gentoo-user] Re: less file.html

Stroller wrote: When I run `less file.html` the rendered webpage is shown, not the source. It is as if lynx had been invoked, rather than less. As a workaround, you can use: less file.html -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Setting default user environments in /etc/profile.d/

Stroller wrote: What am I doing wrong or misunderstanding, please? Rename your file to essential_defaults.sh. Only files with a .sh extension are sourced (assuming you are using bash). -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3 has landed

Vishnupradeep wrote: Is that true, Gnome 3 available for gentoo. can i emerge it ? You know, you don't need to ask us for permission ;) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: apache-2.2.20 - upstream config files reappear in /etc

Florian Philipp wrote: I guess it was just happened through an oversight because of the rushed release. I just removed those files without ill effects. Indeed, these files seem completely useless on a Gentoo system. I have filed a bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382997 -- Remy

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: kernel parameters

Peter Humphrey wrote: Can anyone point me to the parameter concerned? I can't find it with grep. Could it be CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP? -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using python2.7. No, you're not. * Building failed with CPython 3.2 in distutils_building() function ^^^ Check what eselect python list shows you, and what USE_PYTHON is set to in make.conf. -- Remy signature.asc

[gentoo-user] Re: docutils will not emerge

cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Here is eselect python list [1] python2.7 * [2] python3.2 I have no USE_PYTHON in make.conf. Everything seems to be in order, then. The symptoms look very much like: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366879 (Look at the duplicates for the

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible to map the CAPSLOCK to simply nothing? I use the following: Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,caps:none -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Thank you for all the nice ideas -- for some reason I like the xorg.conf method best :) And while you're at it, add the following lines to your /etc/conf.d/local.start, so that caps lock is disabled on the console, too: # Disable caps lock loadkeys EOF $(dumpkeys |

[gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 update: re-emerge of cracklib failed, how can I fix it?

Jarry wrote: File setup.py, line 22, in module from setuptools import setup, Extension, find_packages ImportError: No module named setuptools Try re-emerging setuptools. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

Marc Blumentritt wrote: Ah, OK. Didn't know this. Do you know, why it does work like this? It initially sets the permissions to 600 presumably to limit access to an unfinished copy from other users. The mtime must be set after copying the contents, because adding a file or directory changes the

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

Mark Knecht wrote: What flags? At least -avHAX -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Best way to copy /* ?

Marc Blumentritt wrote: Have a look at ownership an permissions of virtualbox! rsync sets the mtime and permissions of directories *after* recursing into them. So if you interrupted the process while it was copying the contents of virtualbox, the permissions of that directory haven't been set

[gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

Mark Knecht wrote: My worry with etc-update is that I know, for the most part, all the files I modify when doing an install so I know what to look for when I'm selecting files to replace myself. However with that tool there's a point where you might have 20 files that need updating, you look

[gentoo-user] Re: Not head, not tail, maybe belly

Al wrote: I am looking for a program similar to head or tail. It should display a given range of lines or take a line and a context number like grep. How about combining both? Show 10 lines starting with line 20: tail -n +20 myfile.txt | head -n 10 -- Remy signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] Re: ignore previous msg (Hotplugging not working)

Allan Gottlieb wrote: I plugged into the desktop and looked on the laptop. Thanks for sharing, that made my day :) (Probably because I can so easily imagine that happening to me.) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?

Konstantinos Agouros wrote: I use VirtualBox on a Mac but can it run headless? Any other proposals? Yes, see the documentation for VBoxHeadless. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: tool for reading /etc/conf.d/net?

Amit Dor-Shifer wrote: Can anyone recommend a tool that can parse networking info from a/m file, so one can use it to query, e.g. what is the static IP configured on eth0? bash? No, I'm not joking. The file is a bash script, and hence can just be sourced by another bash script, which could

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

Remy Blank wrote: Some version info: xorg-server-1.8.1.901 xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2 udev-149 gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r6 Has anyone seen anything similar? Any idea how I could either work around the issue or debug it? I have tried strace but couldn't extract any meaningful

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

James L wrote: Turn off all power management software. My guess is it is going into one of the power saving modes that ends up crashing it. Thanks for the suggestion. The only power management software that I have installed is the cpufreq ondemand governor, which shouldn't use the power saving

[gentoo-user] xorg segfaults if I have an encrypted volume mounted

xorg started segfaulting here on startup, at the point where it should detect input devices: [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_INTEL_swap_event [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX: enabled GLX_SGI_make_current_read [ 1198.330] (II) AIGLX:

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

Mick wrote: Is there a cleverer option I can add to rsync so that it only copies new files, overwrites older versions of the same and only deletes any files or directories that have been deleted from the source directory? See the --modify-window option in the rsync man page. In particular,

[gentoo-user] Re: Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: evdev? Right, I was trying to avoid that. But you were probably right. I have upgraded to xorg-server-1.8 and switched to evdev for the keyboard and mouse, with udev autodetection. This seems to have solved the issue. Of course, now we'll never know if switching to

[gentoo-user] Loosing key presses since upgrade to xorg-server-1.7.6

I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (and the few associated packages) a few days ago, and since then I seem to spuriously loose some key presses when typing fast. This only happens in X, not on the console. The box is a Dell Latitude E6500 laptop. I have already re-emerged all necessary drivers

[gentoo-user] Re: konsole refresh laggardly

Xi Shen wrote: my system is gentoo amd64, kd 4.3, compiz. i just updated the world. in konsole, no matter if the system is busy or not, the screen do not refresh sometimes. i will have to move the window, or select some content in the konsole to force it refresh. my graphic card is nvidia.

[gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

Is there a way I can fix this without having to do a complete reinstall? I would start by re-emerging xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse, as suggested in the xorg-server ebuild messages. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Frozen after Upgrade

Colleen Beamer wrote: How am I supposed to do this when I can't login and I can't kill X? Boot from a live CD, then perform a chroot into your system as described in the Gentoo handbook[1] or on the Gentoo wiki[2], then you should be able to emerge as if you were running your system normally.

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I move system to new disk?

Jarry wrote: Maybe dump/restore is better solution? Or something else? Boot a live CD, mount a source partition to /mnt/src, a destination partition to /mnt/dst (with the right options, e.g. acl and user_xattr if you use them), then: rsync -avHAX /mnt/src/ /mnt/dst (The slash after src is

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

Alan McKinnon wrote: Agreed. The elog message strikes me as merely an enthusiastic endorsement of cool shiny new stuff from an over-zealous maintainer who doesn't quite grasp how slow traction can be in the real world While that may be true, and even though he did make a few mistakes in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

Neil Bothwick wrote: Where is USE_PYTHON documented? I see no mention of it in man make.conf, make.conf.example or the portage elogs. In /usr/portage/eclass/python.eclass ;-) To be honest, I wanted that feature so badly that I dug through python.eclass as soon as I saw arfrever mention it.

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo on ssds? intel anyone?

Holger Hoffstaette wrote: After 5 minutes you will fight anyone who would try to take it away again to the death. Seconded. I moved a normal HD install to a 160GB G2, and, well, you just don't imagine how much your day-to-day work is IO bound. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

[gentoo-user] Re: where can I find USE flags description?

Jarry wrote: Where can I find their description? For example vmmouse, what is this USE flag good for? Is it something for vmware? emerge gentoolkit euse -i vmmouse -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

Neil Bothwick wrote: The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. Yes, oooh yes... :-) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: mysql USE flag error

Mick wrote: I've added -mysql in /etc/portage/package.use for x11-libs/qt-sql but it makes no difference. You should add -mysql for the package app-office/akonadi-server instead. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] KDE password dialogs stopped working

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: no, never. Is consolekit running? [Completely OT] Not knowing what ConsoleKit was, I had a look at the documentation. The first chapter has the following gem (second section): Defining the Problem To be written. Quite typical: write the

[gentoo-user] Re: crashing X.org

Pat wrote: I have interesting problem. When I running a video (using mplayer) and another window partially overlap the video window the X.org crashes (better say restarts) and the login screen appears. The log is clean. The graphics card is intel i915 (or i945?). Using:

[gentoo-user] Re: Cloning movie DVDs with dd - only works after accessing disk with another command?

This is just a wild guess, but could the decryption keys be stored in the DVD drive? Playing the disc with mplayer retrieves the keys (using libdvdread) and sets them in the drive. From that point, the disc is readable by all means. When you change the disc, the keys are not valid anymore. As I

[gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

Mike Edenfield wrote: Though I dunno what that means for Gentoo/FreeBSD. It means that relying on linux-only, non-POSIX compliant behavior is a very bad idea ;-) -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: bash stopped running python scripts...

Mike Edenfield wrote: I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts, which of course is playing havoc with portage. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915 The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think breaking Python for all ~x86 is a

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

Paul Hartman wrote: My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... 3. They hijack DNS, making every invalid

[gentoo-user] Re: Installing python packages for different versions

Florian Philipp wrote: How am I supposed to work around this? I install all Python versions I need from portage, then use virtualenv[1] to create environments with different versions of Python, where I install the needed packages with easy_install. Not as simple as using Portage, but it works.

[gentoo-user] Re: * Boot (initramfs) .. does not continue

Maximilian Bräutigam wrote: by the way, if i'm booting w/o the initrd, i get a kernel panic because he is not able to mount/find the raid system -- something with superblock not found. I assume you have set the partition type of your RAID components to fd (RAID autodetect)? -- Remy

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild description

Michael P. Soulier wrote: msoul...@anton:~$ grep DESCRIPTION /usr/portage/dev-libs/libassuan/libassuan-1.0 .5.ebuild DESCRIPTION=Standalone IPC library used by gpg, gpgme and newpg Great, that helps. Still, I wouldn't think that grep would be the best say, so I looked in the emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

Danis Petkakis wrote: hello there i would like to know if there is such a thing as a power saving scheme as far as hard disks are concerned...i would like my hard disks to spin down when they are not being accessed after a defined period of time...is that possible? any hints on how to do that

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard disk power save

Danis Petkakis wrote: ok i tried 'hdparm -y /dev/sda' and though i can hear a little noise as if the disk is in sleep mode after a while (5 secs) it makes a noise as though it is spinning up again... That's why I mentioned laptop-mode-tools. If configured properly, it ensures that the drive

[gentoo-user] Re: Wiki Gentoo article info question

Grant Edwards wrote: On my installation 'info kqemu' runs the Gnu info utility, which doesn't seem to know anything about kqemu. What info program is the Wiki talking about, and where does one get it? A shot in the dark: qemu has a console that can be reached with Ctrl+Alt+2. I would assume

[gentoo-user] Re: I am a f*****g retard. Can you help me?

I don't think it was ever discussed as anything but an option, but I could be even more confused than you... Looks like the disease is spreading, now your signature script is even more confused than you ;-) Good database, though! -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

[gentoo-user] Re: Automatic network configuration for USB connected device

Dan Johansson wrote: The above worked like a charm on my desktop but on my notebook it fails to autoaticly bring up the usb0 interface. If I do '/etc/init.d/net.usb0 start' on the notebook everything works as expected (this I don't have to do on the desktop). Any suggestions where to look?

[gentoo-user] Re: Where did HP Ink Jet support run off to?

It seems that I cannot find where this support has run to for my home office PSC 1610 All-in-One printer. I think you're looking for hplip: # emerge -s hplip Searching... [ Results for search key : hplip ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-print/hplip Latest version available: 2.7.10

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

- If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's why I use rdiff-backup. Yes, me too, but *inside* the encrypted container. - If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me last

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

Neil Bothwick wrote: - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm currently using it with a local server. If I decide to use the backups on a remote server too, I'll probably stick to backing up to the local server and then using rsync. It makes sense to have a copy of the backup locally and only use the much slower option of restoring

[gentoo-user] Re: Encrypted backups under Gentoo

Neil Bothwick wrote: I'm now testing app-backup/boxbackup, which seems good so far. Please report your findings on the list! I'm not all too happy about my current solution (rdiff-backup locally to a filesystem over dmcrypt, loopback-mounted from a file, followed by an rsync over ssh to a

[gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

Grant wrote: postup() { if [[ ${IFACE} = wlan0 ]]; then IIRC, the equality operator is ==, not =. HTH. -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1426 (76478-76527)

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212484 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

Steve wrote: I'm one of the (many) people who has opportunists trying usernames and passwords against SSH... while every effort has been made to secure this service by configuration; strong passwords; no root login remotely etc. I would still prefer to block sites using obvious dictionary

[gentoo-user] Re: loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

Yahya Mohammad wrote: # losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/diskimage # fdisk -l /dev/loop0 (example) Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

[gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:55 -0700, Grant wrote: Can anyone recommend a photo album package either in Portage or an overlay? jalbum looks good but it doesn't seem to be in either: http://jalbum.net even though it's not in portage, I'd highly recommend you try it - I

[gentoo-user] Re: LVM : pros cons

Neil Bothwick wrote: It' one of those things[1] that you put off using because it looks complicated. then you get round to trying it and wish you'd done so much earlier. [1] Screen falls into this category too. I can confirm about screen, I use it everywhere now. But I've yet to try LVM (I

[gentoo-user] Re: Break In attempts

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: I have already disabled PAM authentication on sshd so that only users with a public key in their ~/.ssh can login. This is the first and most important step. This means that the only real problem is that your logs fill with failed log

[gentoo-user] Re: NFS mount fail

Richard Marzan wrote: I get this error when mounting an nfs share: mount.nfs: rpc.statd is not running but is required for remote locking Either use -o nolocks to keep locks local, or start statd. Anyone know what the problem might be? I followed the gentoo-wiki nfs guide @

[gentoo-user] Re: apache2 2.2.x fails to start due to mod_dav_svn.so

Daevid Vincent wrote: Thank God I have daily backups of all my /etc dir. Put it under Subversion and you'll be even better off. Someone in that link above offered a solution: # for i in $(qdepends -CNQ www-servers/apache); do emerge $i; done However, I don't have this qdepends thing, so

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

Neil Bothwick wrote: Why do you make such a big deal of not using LVM? It achieves everything you want to, and more, without the compromises. There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to have an initrd (or initramfs). From what I remember, this has always required

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

Alan McKinnon wrote: On Gentoo it's easy to get away with not using an initramfs. Everything is built from source and you roll your own kernel so we don't need to jump through the boot time hoops that a binary distro must to be able to support everything and boot. You will always have a

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:30:55 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: There's one thing that has prevented me from ever using LVM: the need to have an initrd (or initramfs). Sshh! Don't tell the systems I've been running on LVM for years that they need an initrd or they'll all want one

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Do you even need one? Yes, I do. Because I have / on a logical volume which may (in case of a laptop) also be encrypted. Right. I think I might have confused the necessity to have an initramfs for LVM and the need to have it for an encrypted root. OTOH, if you put

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

Alan McKinnon wrote: You have software compiled in the kernel, not as a module the, right? Correct. A reduce might be a different case altogether. BUT, it's not an especially different operation to a defrag on Windows, and I have yet to see a Windows admin debate whether he should defrag

[gentoo-user] Re: 500 meg / partition (including /boot) *WITHOUT USING LVM*

Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 4. September 2007 schrieb ext Remy Blank: Could you give me a pointer? Can't remember when e2fstools were dropped from Gentoo, but resize2fs is part of e2fsprogs. I actually meant e2fsprogs. Bad manual copy/paste operation. But I was just looking

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge reporting different number of ._cfg....s

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Artim wrote: emerge has been reporting +1 more ._cfg then I find when I run find. This has just started happening. I noticed the same thing, emerge reports one more file to be updated than etc-update finds. It's an off-by-one bug in the

[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a

[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

Abraham Marín Pérez wrote: That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think? The thing is, you will *have to* break things at some point anyway. In your case, it will be when you decide to update LIB (because you

[gentoo-user] Re: why xorg-server needs an old gcc?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 b.n. wrote: icephere ha scritto: When I remove fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS, the old gcc is not required by emerge anymore... weird Probably the proprietary fglrx module is still not GCC-4 compatible. - From the ati-drivers ebuild, you can see that

[gentoo-user] Re: Transparent network compression

Florian Philipp wrote: Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host? My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has got an option for using lzo but I would like to

[gentoo-user] Re: Moving linux system to another partition

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aleksey Kunitskiy wrote: Is it safe to move my linux system by using: #cp -rp /mnt/old_part /mnt/new_part and approriate changes in grub.conf/fstab on new system location ? I have used rsync -avH in the past (-H preserves hardlinks), and with more

[gentoo-user] Peace, please [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs]]

Hi people, I sure didn't expect a simple thank you to people spending lots of their time ensuring that I can save mine, degenerate into a flamewar. Now, we all know about this, don't we? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 For those who don't, I'll summarize here:

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg-7.2 and ati-drivers-8.32.5 - Thank you Gentoo devs

Francisco Rivas wrote: 2.- Remy have you some problem with your configuration or it's only to know? My original question was meant to get feedback *before* doing the update. I updated yesterday, and everything works well. So there's no question anymore. -- Remy signature.asc Description:

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