Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 08.03.2015 16:59, Tom H wrote: Are the ownership and mode of e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.1-gentoo.conf the same as the two others (although I'd assume that it wouldn't matter) and is it formatted correctly? Yes, I think so: # ls -l /boot/loader/entries/ total 2 -rwxr-xr-x 1

Re: [gentoo-user] gummiboot does not display new kernel

2015-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 08.03.2015 17:10, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 08.03.2015 16:59, Tom H wrote: Are the ownership and mode of e55a6b6a09bd2b1c50216272545a8d1f-3.19.1-gentoo.conf the same as the two others (although I'd assume that it wouldn't matter) and is it formatted correctly? Yes, I think so

Re: [gentoo-user] the new ssd, is it happy?

2015-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 25.02.2015 17:16, Bob Wya wrote: For my Samsung 830 / 850 Pro SSDs I don't see any similar NCQ queuing error(s) in my boot logs (they are hooked up to the Intel Controller just now - since I can't connect them to my 6Gbit LSI Controller - arrrggg!!) Perhaps this issue is confined to the

Re: [gentoo-user] the new ssd, is it happy?

2015-02-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 25.02.2015 10:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: good hint, thanks! I will report back if I find something. Swapped the cable and also the SATA-socket on the board. It always gives the same result ... What is interesting: the HDDs negotiate their NCQ fine: [2.254804] ata2.00: ATA-8

Re: [gentoo-user] the new ssd, is it happy?

2015-02-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 25.02.2015 14:18, Bob Wya wrote: Just out of interest what make is the Host Controller on your motherboard... Is it a Intel one? Or some crappy addon chipset? Perhaps you could post the output of lscpi (with lots of - flags - just the Host Controller bit)? 00:1f.2 SATA controller:

Re: [gentoo-user] the new ssd, is it happy?

2015-02-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 25.02.2015 00:55, Bob Wya wrote: Super obvious question... but can you enable AHCI mode for your SATA Controller - in the BIOS. AHCI is enabled in the BIOS, I checked right now. Do the messages tell us it isn't? Ah, I see, no NCQ for the SSD ... hmm, right. Are you using HP supplied SATA

Re: [gentoo-user] logs in the browser?

2015-02-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 24.02.2015 17:01, Rich Freeman wrote: Seems like there should be a systemd-users mailing list, actually. This sort of situation is completely distro-agnostic. Yes! And systemd-devel ml is always kind of they will laugh at me and say ugly things! ;-) You certainly could design such an

[gentoo-user] the new ssd, is it happy?

2015-02-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
ordered myself a new and shiny ssd last week. one thinkpad still had that 60GB OCZ Vertex3 and that was a bit tight now and then. So I ordered a Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB for my desktop and planned to move the former 840 EVO 250GB to the thinkpad. Done today. Moving was rather *boring* -

Re: [gentoo-user] logs in the browser?

2015-02-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.02.2015 um 03:14 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: Stefan, if you already have systemd (which I believe you do), why don't you compile in the support for microhttpd and use the journal? This is the exact scenario for which systemd-journal-gatewayd[1] was written. very good ... enabled it on

Re: [gentoo-user] logs in the browser?

2015-02-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 24.02.2015 13:14, Rich Freeman wrote: I suspect this is trivial - it looks like something like this would work: http://.../entries?_SYSTEMD_UNIT=postfix.service Yes, correct, as I thought this is the easy part. Works: http://mythtv.local:19531/entries?_SYSTEMD_UNIT=postfix.service (using

[gentoo-user] logs in the browser?

2015-02-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
As I see that syslog-thread ... I think of setting up something for apache that allows a client to browse and search through the postfix-logs for his domain. Any good hints what to use for that purpose? Stefan

[gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone know why I can't use the controller type='scsi' model=lsisas1068 / when I do a virsh edit myvm while there is a model lsisas1078 available? According to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers there should be both. I have to convert/migrate a VMware VM using

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 09.02.2015 16:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone know why I can't use the controller type='scsi' model=lsisas1068 / when I do a virsh edit myvm while there is a model lsisas1078 available? According to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers

Re: [gentoo-user] libvirt: lsisas1068 controller

2015-02-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 09.02.2015 16:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Does anyone know why I can't use the controller type='scsi' model=lsisas1068 / when I do a virsh edit myvm while there is a model lsisas1078 available? According to https://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsControllers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 05.02.2015 17:59, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 04/02/15 08:07, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work wonders

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.02.2015 um 22:07 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work wonders. Good suggestion, will check tmrw

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.02.2015 um 12:27 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: I've never had qtwebkit fail to build (at least not recently), what's the exact error? Can you post the output of `emerge --info dev-qt/qtwebkit` as well? hmmm, yes, I would like to ... but now it worked! I had it fail 3 times already ... maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.02.2015 um 20:30 schrieb Jörg Schaible: Consider a memcheck. Arbitrary failures while the CPU is high is often because some component starts dying. Sometimes cleaning the fans work wonders. Good suggestion, will check tmrw and clean the fans as well. It gave internal compiler error

[gentoo-user] dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.4.0

2015-02-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
dev-qt/qtwebkit does not compile for me ... not with gcc 4.8.4 or 4.9.2 ... before I file a bug @ b.g.o ... anyone else?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

2015-02-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 02.02.2015 um 22:35 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 19:02:24 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I applied the patch from Comment 9 to nfs-utils-1.3.2-r1 but rpc-statd.service doesn't start either. Do I have to downgrade as well

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

2015-02-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 02.02.2015 16:19, waben...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the explanation. My NFS servers are running Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. Only my clients are gentoo systems. And on the clients I have no NFS 4 support in the kernel and I also don't have to specify nfsver=4. Maybe this problem only occurs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [NOTE] New default behavior in latest nfs-utils (1.3.2-r1)

2015-02-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 02.02.2015 16:55, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=538372 Explanations fixes.I have it running on both server client (with openrc). Refusing to set NFS_V4_2 on the client may break things since it's apparently the default for protocol negotiation, but

[gentoo-user] IPAM: phpipam ?

2015-01-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
What do you gentoo-users prefer for doing IPAM ... ? Learned about http://phpipam.net today ... no gentoo ebuild yet. opinions? recommendations? Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 29.01.2015 11:31, hydra wrote: I haven't migrated to group_vars yet, so try and let us know ;) It took me a bit of fiddling but I think I figured it out. I had to get the directory structure correct ... now I have /etc/ansible/inventories/group_vars/ with files like siteA, siteB, siteC ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.01.2015 um 19:32 schrieb hydra: By the way, you don't need to have it in /etc/ansible, feel free to have it anywhere. Thanks for the reminder ... I know already ;)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.01.2015 um 02:34 schrieb Jonathan Callen: You have mounted your ESP on /boot, so you need to tell grub *that* is your ESP, not /boot/efi, like so: # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot Once you do that, everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 30.01.2015 um 11:05 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 30.01.2015 um 02:34 schrieb Jonathan Callen: You have mounted your ESP on /boot, so you need to tell grub *that* is your ESP, not /boot/efi, like so: # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
sorry ... still a bit OT but maybe interesting for others as well: Yesterday I started to modify the following ansible role to fit my needs and work with gentoo target hosts: https://github.com/debops/ansible-dhcpd I modified tasks/main.yml (use portage ... install iproute2 as well) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 29.01.2015 10:47, Tomas Mozes wrote: Have your IPs listed in hosts-production. For each site create a file, like: site_A.yml - hosts: site_A roles: - ... site_B.yml - hosts: site_B roles: - ... Then create site.yml where you include site_A.yml and site_B.yml.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 21:36, Tom H wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. But IIRC the 'tree' output that you'd posted, you shouldn't have the leading '\EFI'. the EFI is under /boot/efi from my trial and error today - # ls -l

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 21:42, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:34:31 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Would you mind sharing the tree of your /boot ... ? I tried booting grub and it didn't work yet. To answer this and your previous

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. tried your command and rebooted, worked, thanks! I now have: # efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0008 Timeout: 0 seconds BootOrder

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 22:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: Which could be because Grub can't find it's files. It installed them in /boot/EFI/GRUB2 here. % ls -1 /boot/EFI/**/*.efi /boot/EFI/Boot/bootx64.efi /boot/EFI/GRUB2/grubx64.efi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:37, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: thanks, I will go through this asap (hopefully tomorrow). Just in case someone else is motivated right now ;-) - mine (with definitely too much grub-content in there) should I go for it and format the ESP ... remount and re-install both

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 20:47, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:32, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: On 28.01.2015 21:31, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: My command lead to a non-booting machine ... the gummiboot-entry was removed from UEFI. tried your command and rebooted, worked

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 22:55, Tom H wrote: You need a 'grub.cfg' in '/boot/efi/EFI/grub_uefi'. I've deleted your email with the 'tree' output. I'm going to have to look it up in the archives because you shouldn't have 'efi' in your path if the ESP mountpoint is '/boot'. forget the old mail. I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 23:51, Tom H wrote: Why two EFIs? One of them's unnecessary but if you want to have both, you have to have them both in the efibootmgr invocation. I don't know why. What I did: cd /boot rm -fr * gummiboot install grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 00:40:32 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your motherboard uses

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This worked now : # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi cleaning up the entries ... I get # grub2-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot/efi Installing for x86_64-efi platform. efibootmgr: Could not set variable

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:38, Tom H wrote: Try to add '--efi-directory=/boot' to your grub-install invocation although I wonder whether grub-mkconfig will find your kernels and initramfs's if they aren't in the root of '/boot'. Thanks. Got it already - # rm /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/dump-type0-* #

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records: renaming Linux Boot Manager to gummiboot was done by: # efibootmgr -b -B # efibootmgr -c -L gummiboot nice!

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.01.2015 19:50, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: On 28.01.2015 19:44, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So now Linux Boot Manager is gummiboot ... and grub is grub ;) And for the records: renaming Linux Boot Manager to gummiboot was done by: # efibootmgr -b -B # efibootmgr -c -L

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.01.2015 23:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 22:31:21 +, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 21:21:05 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Just wanted to share that I switched from booting via grub2 to gummiboot ... UEFI only now

Re: [gentoo-user] grub - gummiboot: good

2015-01-27 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28.01.2015 00:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: afaik you could chainload grub from gummiboot to do that . ? ;) No need for chainloading with UEFI. Set Gummiboot as the default boot option and hold down Esc (or whichever key your motherboard

Re: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer

2015-01-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 25.01.2015 14:32, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: teamviewer. You can chat. You can see their desktops and see what they are doing wrong. Not the right tool for my use case. I don't want to see his desktop ... we just discuss issues and how to proceed when we debug stuff or plan things. Like

Re: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer

2015-01-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.01.2015 12:06, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: I suppose you're referring to 'written' chat. Yes! At work, on a local network, I'm using pidgin client with SIPE plugin (x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe ). Works fine to chat with co-workers using Microsoft Lync or Office Communicator. File

[gentoo-user] chatting with the customer

2015-01-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I communicate with an admin at a customer ... we write dozens of emails and tickets and often it would be simpler to have some kind of chat or so. I'd like to avoid skype etc ... so I think of installing something on one of their gentoo-servers that allows us to run a simple chat. I run

Re: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer

2015-01-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 23.01.2015 14:35, Jc García wrote: A Murmur server is fairly easy and quick to install, and you get text and audio encrypted by default, the mumble client is very user friendly also. The good old Jabber(XMPP) might be another option with empathy as client. or even easier make an IRC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 19.01.2015 22:49, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I learned my first steps with ansible around these ansible-playbook(s): https://github.com/jameskyle/ansible-gentoo Here my changes in a fork of the mentioned ansible-role: https://github.com/stefangweichinger/ansible-gentoo Maybe someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.01.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I might file the bug at b.g.o. .. going upstream seems a bit early ;-) posted to their google-group and got pointed to the latest devel-branch (equals to ** in our gentoo-world). Works now, even in mixed mode (both systemd and openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Get off my lawn?

2015-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 19.01.2015 um 19:03 schrieb James: I think you drasitcally over_estimate the number of those happy linux distro users. I think if there was an easy way to perform a few typical gentoo installs (workstation, mail-server, web server, dns server, hardended*) then folks would migrate heavily

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 18.01.2015 09:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: My advice: Start with groups. If you find you need to have lots of when clauses to make the plays work across more than one distro, and the whens follow the same format, then you might want to split them into groups. Make for example a gentoo-www

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12.01.2015 17:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: You'd have to define it yourself in your plays somewhere Several ways present themselves: - Group customers together by customer name and use the group name. - Define the customer directly in the inventory. Generally it isn't recommended to

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 11.01.2015 17:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: The trick is to use a system that guarantees you a unique label or identifier for each host. Perhaps {{ customer_name }}/{{ hostname }} works? This would fail if you have two customers with the same company name (rare, but not impossible) or

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 12.01.2015 08:46, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2015-01-11 22:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: Out of curiosity, ansible-controlled files, sysadmin-controlled files means that something is managed via ansible and something is done manually? Yes Then it's clear why /etc is in git. Ideally one would

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.01.2015 um 13:25 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The reason I'm recommending to keep all of /etc in it's own repo is that it's the simplest way to do it. /etc/ is a large mixture of ansible-controlled files,

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible (was: another old box to update)

2015-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.01.2015 um 19:29 schrieb Alan McKinnon: The directory layout in the best practice page is indeed way more than you need, it lists most of the directories in common use across a wide array of deployments. In reality you create just the directories you need. Global stuff goes in the top

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 08.01.2015 00:02, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 07/01/2015 22:30, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 07.01.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes: Strange, I only have successful stories with upgrading old gentoo machines. If you have a machine which you update regularly then you know all the issues

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 07.01.2015 um 13:13 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:01:34 +0100, Tomas Mozes wrote: Try to fetch some older portage snapshots http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/snapshots/ and update in steps, not as a 4 year giant leap. Try to fetch

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 12:52 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Thanks for any pointers! I *think* I solved it by fixing the binutils-setting ... just testing ... seems solved for now! Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Alan McKinnon: The tricky one is going to be that persistent interface names from udev 18 months or so back. When you get to that, you'll probably want to re-read the huge threads from that time, as you only get one chance to get it right. One addition: at the

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:28 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: openrc should be seamless. I forget the exact timelines, but IIRC you will also hit baselayout-2 migration. That one was very smooth and well documented so you shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.01.2015 um 00:02 schrieb Alan McKinnon: In my opinion, ansible almost always beats puppet. Puppet is a) complex b) built to be able to deal with vast enterprise setups and c) has a definition language I never could wrap my brains around. It always felt to me like puppet was never a

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 20:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes: Strange, I only have successful stories with upgrading old gentoo machines. If you have a machine which you update regularly then you know all the issues during the time and so upgrading per partes leads to no surprises but the same challenges

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

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 07.01.2015 um 21:17 schrieb Neil Bothwick: That's not what I meant, but I see your point about using --reflink if making copies. My thought was to forget the whole tmpfs and copying think, set KEEP WORK in FEATURES and use XFS for

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 17:08 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It's worth repeating: the customer caused this, he must now feel the pain and not you. So, if he made an informed choice and that is what he chose, then that is how it

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 13:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 17:38 schrieb James: Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* Thanks for any pointers! best, Stefan If the server is 5 years old

[gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* I managed to compile basic stuff already ... portage, gcc etc Now I get errors at emerging packages which is bad. Still no openrc installed and the udev-upgrade also

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.01.2015 um 14:44 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 07/01/2015 15:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Seems as if the biggest problems are solved right now? if you ran emerge -avuND world and portage goes ahead and does it without blockers, then I'd agree - the major problems are solved. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.12.2014 um 09:11 schrieb Dale: I didn't get any here either. Unless Gmail filtered it which should be disabled. me = 3rd one not getting them. Without gmail (but other antispam-measures ...). S

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 24.12.2014 um 02:02 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Ad slow: what kind of hardware did you use and how many nodes/osds? We used 3 servers, where each server was both node and osd (that's our hardware limitation). Each machine had hardware alike 2x Xeon E5450, 16 GB and 2 Gbps network

[gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone here running ceph / http://ceph.com/ on gentoo? As server(s) or client or ... ? I am learning about this right now and currently on my way to a first small test cluster. Very interesting possibilities ! Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.12.2014 um 16:25 schrieb Tomas Mozes: I tried the filesystem with kernel 3.7 a year ago (to export distfiles to several machines). Since it's kernel based a bug caused my system to reboot and sadly it was a database. However the project mentioned that the filesystem wasn't production

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.12.2014 um 16:20 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Hi, On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 15:22:26 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Anyone here running ceph / http://ceph.com/ on gentoo? As server(s) or client or ... ? I am learning about this right now

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.12.2014 um 16:28 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 23.12.2014 um 16:25 schrieb Tomas Mozes: I tried the filesystem with kernel 3.7 a year ago (to export distfiles to several machines). Since it's kernel based a bug caused my system to reboot and sadly it was a database. However

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.12.2014 um 21:40 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: got my first two demo nodes up and in-sync ... what a success ;-) I started to look into ceph, and my biggest issue is that they don't protect against silent corruption

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 23.12.2014 um 22:08 schrieb Holger Hoffstätte: On Tue, 23 Dec 2014 21:54:00 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: At least for the future ... now that btrfs is declared stable at least Yeah, no. 3.18 is finally OK-ish (after they missed the .17 merge window with a huge number of fixes

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
;-) Yes, nice. To explain: I only let the thinkpad in there for maybe 10 minutes or so ... So the risk is minimized, I assume. Am 17. Dezember 2014 18:44:37 MEZ, schrieb Christian Kruse c...@defunct.ch: Hi, Stefan G. Weichinger writes: When I compile bigger packages on my small ThinkPad

Re: [gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers [solved]

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.12.2014 um 11:45 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 15.12.2014 um 11:03 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: gnome-control-center shows both but enabling the 2nd simply doesn't work. This is all without trying to use wayland! Just plain gnome ... I even tried the kernel-options to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers [solved]

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 16.12.2014 um 12:51 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I don't get wayland running here ... see the attached log of a failing attempt. update: gnome-session on wayland running after using this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532566

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Overheat

2014-12-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.12.2014 um 07:33 schrieb J. Roeleveld: Try cleaning the vents. Also, most couches have a tendency to compress when something like a laptop is on it. Effectively blocking all airflow. If the temperature goes to 99C when on top of a table, return the laptop to the shop as it is

[gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers

2014-12-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I recently set up Gnome 3.14 with basic wayland support on one of my thinkpads. This thinkpad uses intel graphics ... my main desktop comes with a Nvidia GeForce GT 430 and I want to test wayland there as well. As far as I researched one has to use the opensource nouveau drivers them, right? I

Re: [gentoo-user] moving over to nouveau drivers [solved]

2014-12-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.12.2014 um 11:03 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: gnome-control-center shows both but enabling the 2nd simply doesn't work. This is all without trying to use wayland! Just plain gnome ... I even tried the kernel-options to enable the HDMI .. hmm I played with stuff like xrandr --output

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome fails under kernel 3.18

2014-12-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.12.2014 um 10:01 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Why do you use Google-Chrome? I'm using Chromium which works just fine with gentoo-sources-3.18.0. ... and google-chrome works as well, at least here for me

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.11.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Al: Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Who has rent a virtual server at linode.com and what is your opinion? I have two servers with Linode, one running Gentoo, and Debian on the other. My experience has been great so far. My only contact with support was an ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.11.2014 um 11:57 schrieb J. Roeleveld: No, pv-grub is run inside the context of the host, using a kernel image inside the VM. ... which is not in /boot as far as I see. So if I want to add kernel-boot-time-options I have to install my own kernel plus the entry in menu.lst, correct?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.11.2014 um 12:49 schrieb Pandu Poluan: It performs magic tricks to read the /boot proper, because / might be on a different partition or even different virtual disk, but 99% of the time it works automagically. It's the 1% that you should be scared of :-) Ah, at least something! ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.11.2014 um 12:59 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 30.11.2014 um 12:49 schrieb Pandu Poluan: It performs magic tricks to read the /boot proper, because / might be on a different partition or even different virtual disk, but 99% of the time it works automagically. It's the 1% that you

[gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
fellow gentoo-users: Who has rent a virtual server at linode.com and what is your opinion? I find stuff like: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1101752 https://plus.google.com/+DiegoElioPettenò/posts/FbuwyVg79Eh Maybe they have learned since then? Any current opinions? I spent

Re: [gentoo-user] OT somehow: experiences around linode

2014-11-29 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.11.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Al: My experience has been great so far. My only contact with support was an ipv6 issue that I ran into a few months ago, and they quickly replied with a reference to a Gentoo bug which included the fix. So here's one vote for Linode. good to hear that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 26.11.2014 um 21:39 schrieb Rich Freeman: Most devs can't wait to switch to git. There are a few who might prefer to stick with cvs but overall I don't think that is preventing us from switching at all. (without having read the whole thread, sorry) my *personal opinion* is that git

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs and gcc 4.9

2014-11-24 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.11.2014 um 21:34 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Up and running with gnome 3.14 as well. Snappy performance so far. Only a few packages left to care about. Nice. Just another status for the records: so far I am running happily on ~amd64 built from scratch with sys-devel/gcc(**)4.9.2

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.11.2014 um 20:06 schrieb Peter Weilbacher: On 20/11/14 18:19, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: But I like that trackpoint yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. Just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.11.2014 um 18:25 schrieb Grant Edwards: Interesting. I ask for thinkpads and get two answers pointing to other brands ;-) You did not ask for/about thinkpads. You said you were currently running thinkpads. You did not say that you wanted to replace them with new thinkpads, just

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-21 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.11.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Daniel Frey: On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.11.2014 um 15:37 schrieb Sid S: In a similar vein, I would suggest https://system76.com/laptops. I found them after I purchased my laptop. Had I known, I likely would have gone with them and purchased their most expensive model. For the most part, what you want is relatively hard to

[gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-18 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I consider buying a new laptop in late 2014 ... taxes and stuff ... I run 2 thinkpads here, each with 8 gigs of RAM and SSD inside: L520 and X220 - both still with Intel Core i-(5|7)-2xxx inside. So far OK, but not up2date. Considering a budget of ~1000 EUR maximum (more based on reason) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: btrfs and gcc 4.9

2014-11-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Back to the topic of the thread: As I mentioned I started to prepare a new root-filesystem within a btrfs-subvolume. By using systemd-nspawn I chroot into it and can rebuild my system from scratch while running my main installation. I set up a second grub2-entry as well so I can even chose

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