Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.05.2014 18:38, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Jc García wrote: >>> 2014-05-14 9:51 GMT-06:00 Canek Peláez Valdés : On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Wed, May

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 14.05.2014 11:26, schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> What RAID? I think of a laptop with only one SSD inside. You mean >> the duplicated metadata in this case? > > Ah right. I've got RAID n the brain because I'm currently resizing > the partitions for a ZF

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 14.05.2014 10:42, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 14 May 2014 10:01:42 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> But then the "container" of the btrfs would be corrupted, right? > > No, because each element of the RAID is

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 14.05.2014 02:39, schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> Doesn't that screw up the whole idea of checksumming etc ? > > Not to my mind. The bits are recorded and checksummed, that's what > matters. If a bit on a platter is flipped, the decrypted bits will > a

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.05.2014 01:02, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 14 May 2014 00:34:12 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> How to transform partitions/directories set up with cryptsetup >> into this new world? Set up a btrfs on top of the crypted fs ? I >> ask because I look fo

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 20:28, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Next steps: > > * see if things work :-) > > * migrate my other, faster and bigger SSD to the new and shiny root-fs. > I boot from the EFI partition there ... but root and stuff is on the 2nd > SSD. done that today ...

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.05.2014 14:29, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: >> * What is the status now with dracut? The mentioned options ... I >> don't have them in my config (although my setup is now completely >> different from yours ... anyway). > > I emerged it and want to use it to boot with systemd. Did you con

Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting systemd to work

2014-05-13 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 13.05.2014 05:46, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: > Hi. Well, even with use_fstab=yes, it does not put one, just > /etc/fstab.empty of 0 length -- how can I fix? I didn't read the full thread yet ... but let me get that straight for me to understand the status: * You want to have / and everyt

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 16:30, schrieb Marc Joliet: > In a presentation by Donny Berkholz at Fosdem this year [0], he > mentioned the distro CoreOS, and that they can do atomic updates. I > haven't looked it up in detail, but they're website says that they > use a dual-root scheme where the update is perfor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 14:05, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 12/05/14 15:02, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> [...] >>> Could you maybe add how you "use the EFI console framebuffer driver" >>> here, just as a reference for others? You know, we all google around >>> like hell ... especially with this "intuitive

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 18:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > "mount" does not show me the subvol-id or subvol-name of a mounted > btrfs-subvolume. > > Seems like a bug in util-linux to me, in other distros that seems to work. > > /proc/mounts and findmnt also don't di

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 11:46, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: >> Is this an EFI, or a NVidia problem? > > Both. > > EFI does not provide a VGA text mode, only BIOS does. So booting in EFI > mode makes VGA text mode impossible to use. > > Then there's NVidia, who do not officially support booting in anything

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with hi-res display and nouveau driver on *one* system

2014-05-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.05.2014 02:12, schrieb gottl...@nyu.edu: > I realize you don't use gdm/gnome. But perhaps someone has seen the > following problem. > > To release the screensaver, the current gnome wants you to press mouse > button1 and move the mouse up (as with phones and tablets). This fails > to end

Re: [gentoo-user] btrfs conversion: first impressions

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
After some initial learning and fiddling I have to say that I really like the features and possibilities of btrfs so far. OK, features bring complexity as well ... some technology hides that more, some less. ... but it is really nice-to-have the option to snapshot your root-fs, do-something-to-i

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 14:35, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 10.05.2014 13:14, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > >> Looking forward to more learning. >> At first now a bit of weekend, afk. > > I also had ~180 GB free on one of my thinkpads so I also added a > btrfs-root ther

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when >> I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB >> screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] No console when booting with GRUB 2?

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 11.05.2014 14:41, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when > I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB > screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press > Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I o

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.05.2014 13:14, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Looking forward to more learning. > At first now a bit of weekend, afk. I also had ~180 GB free on one of my thinkpads so I also added a btrfs-root there just for fun ;-) Had a bit of fiddling with the boot-options but now I succes

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.05.2014 21:59, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Aside from that I plugged a non-used older SSD into my SATA/USB-adapter > and put a btrfs-root onto it ... > > After some fiddling I currently run my system booted from that ;-) > > Yes, sure, slow because of the exte

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.05.2014 20:14, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 08.05.2014 13:57, schrieb William Kenworthy: > >> I have had had very poor luck with ext anything and would hesitate it to >> recommend it except for this very specific case where there is little >> alternative - r

Re: [gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

2014-05-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.05.2014 22:30, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak: > Hi all. Is it safe to install Gentoo in a course of days? Today, I > plan to get the partitions set up, mounted, and get all the stage3 > things installed, maybe install the kernel if time permits. Depends on your experience. An experienced gentoo u

Re: [gentoo-user] planned btrfs conversion: questions

2014-05-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.05.2014 13:57, schrieb William Kenworthy: > I have had had very poor luck with ext anything and would hesitate it to > recommend it except for this very specific case where there is little > alternative - reiserfs is far better on platters for instance. I would be interested in your experie

[gentoo-user] bareos, anyone?

2014-05-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone of you use the bareos backup suite with gentoo? I will start to test it and learn the basics as I need some hands-on-experience for a job at a customer. Quick installation went fine, aside from the missing systemd-unit-files (yes, we know ...). I will grab some unit-files from anothe

[gentoo-user] Re: Qemu/KVM

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 14:27, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Monday, May 05, 2014 01:25:52 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 05.05.2014 11:14, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >>> That will take some time. Earliest moment I might have the time would be >>> June as I need to find a decent ho

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 11:14, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > That will take some time. Earliest moment I might have the time would be June > as I need to find a decent howto on setting up KVM along with libvirt on a > test > system. I do that for a living :-P just kidding ... S

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 08:52, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Thanks, but I had that as well ... I will skip that stuff and try going >> the UEFI-way later this day, if my customers allow ... > > Good luck (with your customers) customers quiet so far ... so I fired up a live cd and re-did all this. long story

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 09:09, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Update: > I just found the following page (didn't show up last year using Google): > http://redes-privadas-virtuales.blogspot.nl/2011/03/taking-snapshots-on-kvm-with-libvirt.html > > Memory-snapshot appears possible as well. Time to start testing this.

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.05.2014 07:09, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > [snip] >> Let me try to update this test VM to see if I can hit the same issue as >> you. > > OK, I updated everything, and I certainly hit an issue. With > sys-kernel/dracut-037, I ca

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 04.05.2014 22:09, schrieb Neil Bothwick: > It was far simpler than that and did not involve copying data. You > can change the hostname using one of the mdadm management commands > AFAIR (I meant man mdadm not man lvm of course). option "--update=

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2014 21:22, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 09:03:08 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> People run KVM-hosts with storage on ZFS ... nice with the >> snapshots etc ... > > Does KVM support running snapshots? Eg. also storing the memory and > reg

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2014 20:40, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Sunday, May 04, 2014 03:07:28 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Oh, yes, I like ZFS and its features and used it in some cases already. >> But I didn't yet take the step to set up ZFS-root on my work machines. > > I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2014 12:49, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > I wouldn't use the stripe/mirror support in LVM as I don't think it is used > often and I feel that functionality doesn't belong in LVM. > If you want to move it all into a single layer, I would suggest ZFS instead. Oh, yes, I like ZFS and its feature

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2014 10:53, schrieb Peter Humphrey: >> I spent nearly the whole day digging around this issue ... > > You did better than I did recently: I spent four days at it. phew! ;-) >> I wonder if I speak for more users when I say that all this is kind >> of confusing sometimes ... > > I'm wi

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-04 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 04.05.2014 03:56, schrieb Mark Pariente: > I had a similar issue after upgrading to sys-apps/systemd-212-r3. Turned > out it was due to udev rules.d directory location. I still had a bunch > of udev rules under /usr/lib64/udev/rules.d and it looks like the new > systemd/udev is only looking at r

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 22:50, schrieb Peter Humphrey: >> Yes, I noticed that annoyance myself. I would much prefer it to default to >> more logical names. > > If the docs had included that little snippet I'd have saved myself many a > frustrating hour. I'll only look stupid if I tell you how many ;-) >

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 22:23, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > So I got some decent cleanup today ... removed one of the RAID-arrays > (obsolete/unused), redid my fstab completely and modified the whole > dracut/grub2/kerninst-setup ... phew! [...] > I wonder if I should keep or remov

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 21:53, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> As per the bug you posted, can you show us the contents of your >> initramfs, to check that the LVM binaries are included? And confirm >> that the binaries are the same as in your normal system? > > Hm, yes ... I was

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 21:41, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 03.05.2014 21:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:35 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>> On Saturday, May 03, 2014 01:30:4

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 21:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:35 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On Saturday, May 03, 2014 01:30:43 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés >>> wrote: [...] >>> Let me try to update this test VM to see i

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 20:56, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Thanks for the offer, I am not yet there ;-) > > Ok. I hardly ever delete anything these days. So those are likely to remain > available in their current form for the foreseeable future. My current goal is to get a working 3.13.11 with systemd and d

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 20:47, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Saturday, May 03, 2014 08:37:49 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 03.05.2014 20:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>> sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r1:2 >>> sys-kernel/dracut-033:0 >>> sys-apps/systemd-204:0 >&

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 20:33, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r1:2 > sys-kernel/dracut-033:0 > sys-apps/systemd-204:0 > sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.100-r2:0 great, thanks I am able to boot a kernel 3.13.4 with its initramfs which was built back then with dracut-034-r1. No mdadm-raids assembl

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 19:25, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Do you want to see any other config? The version numbers would be interesting: grub dracut lvm2 systemd ... Thanks! I configured my machine similar to yours and try the next booting ..

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 19:25, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > I'll give you my confs in my LVM2 virtual machine; my normal machines > don't use LVM2, so I don't think they'll help in any way. > > Also, if my normal machines are lagging on updates, the virtual ones > are even more behind: my LVM vm has syst

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 18:51, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.05.2014 18:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 03.05.2014 15:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >>> Am 03.05.2014 15:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 18:40, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.05.2014 15:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 03.05.2014 15:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >>> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> [...] >>>> If you boot without those in

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 15:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.05.2014 15:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> [...] >>> If you boot without those in fstab, then do the mdadm and lvm steps >>> manually, >>&g

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 15:59, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > Regarding your problem; as I said to Joost, I have no idea what could > possibly cause the problem, but from the experiments I conducted > trying to understand what happened with systemd+LVM2, I got the > impression that this kind of issue happen

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 15:50, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > [...] >> If you boot without those in fstab, then do the mdadm and lvm steps manually, >> do you then have it " working "? >> If yes, I would leave it for now and wait for Canek to come online

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 15:46, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:37 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > [snip] >> Sounds like an issue with the mdadm script/unit. >> Where is Canek with his knowledge of systemd? > > Canek was sleeping because it was 6:37 AM on a Saturday morning. hehe ;-) goo

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 14:52, schrieb Tom H: >> Has mdadm.service to be enabled as well? Or is that redundant in a way? > > Try "rd.md.uuid=<...>" for all the md arrays that you want to bring up. Tested that right now, no mdadm-array assembled! Thanks anyway, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 15:08, schrieb Todd Goodman: > I wouldn't think so, but when I set up a new server somewhat recently I > needed to do the same. > > I've heard of others who don't need to do anything special so it's > likely some misconfiguration on my part. In my case it seems to be related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 14:52, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > If you boot without those in fstab, then do the mdadm and lvm steps manually, > do you then have it " working "? yes ... everything up and accessible then. > If yes, I would leave it for now and wait for Canek to come online in a few > hours. (Mexic

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 14:17, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> (Don't ask for the strange setup with sdb3/sdc6 and sdb6/sdc3, >> historically grown somehow ...) > > Seen stranger, it works. > What do the logs show when enabling them? Any "odd" messages? Just looked it up, nothing odd. To me it seems that the ass

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 14:19, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Saturday, May 03, 2014 02:09:39 PM Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 03.05.2014 14:03, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >>>> Booted with "rd.auto=1" and now I also get a funny start job >>>> running/waiting fo

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 14:17, schrieb Todd Goodman: > * Stefan G. Weichinger [140503 08:09]: >> Am 03.05.2014 13:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> >>> Booted with "rd.auto=1" and now I also get a funny start job >>> running/waiting for /dev/sda1 (/ on the

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 14:03, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Booted with "rd.auto=1" and now I also get a funny start job >> running/waiting for /dev/sda1 (/ on the SSD). >> >> Oh my! :-) > > That's no good. > Something is not playing well. > I would check the boot-scripts/unit-files/dependencies Yep, I do ..

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 13:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Booted with "rd.auto=1" and now I also get a funny start job > running/waiting for /dev/sda1 (/ on the SSD). > > Oh my! :-) > > pasta now. So, back from speed-lunch now ;-) While cooking the pasta I got a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 13:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 03.05.2014 13:19, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > >> Sounds like an issue with the mdadm-raid devices. >> Try setting those up WITHOUT systemctl (or init.d-scripts) >> >> Then checking >> - /proc/mdstat >>

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 13:19, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Sounds like an issue with the mdadm-raid devices. > Try setting those up WITHOUT systemctl (or init.d-scripts) > > Then checking > - /proc/mdstat > - dmesg > - logging > Any of those might show an error. > Maybe ssh-in from a seperate machine to enable

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 13:05, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > dracut = initramfs > Did you update the initramfs recently? If out-of-sync with what is on the > "main" environment, it could lead to issues. > >> I worked with exactly this box around 10hrs ago and it booted fine then. >> I will check genlop what I u

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 12:54, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > I don't use systemd, but as it's pushed by Redhat and redhat, by default, > uses > LVM, I would expect that part to work correctly together. Yes ... but I still don't fully get what services to enable to get it set up correctly. lvmetad yes or no, va

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 12:49, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Interesting. > In your other email you mentioned you can access the LVM volumes using a > rescue-cd. > Are there any snapshots in there? Or did you do any recent changes to the LVs? > I am wondering if there might be an issue with the metadata causing

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 12:27, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On 3 May 2014 12:12:09 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >> >> I see boot problems on two of my machines ... very likely related to >> lvm2 as far as I can tell so far. >> >> Downgraded and even disabled sys

Re: [gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.05.2014 12:12, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > > I see boot problems on two of my machines ... very likely related to > lvm2 as far as I can tell so far. > > Downgraded and even disabled systemd, re-emerged stuff ... I am still at > trying to find the reason. Maybe it

[gentoo-user] boot problems

2014-05-03 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I see boot problems on two of my machines ... very likely related to lvm2 as far as I can tell so far. Downgraded and even disabled systemd, re-emerged stuff ... I am still at trying to find the reason. Maybe it is with the mdadm raids also ... I just want to ask you other gentoo users if anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.04.2014 20:25, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Tom Gundersen, one of the main coders said "IPv6 support is so far very > basic (you can set static IPv6 addresses, and that's it). We plan to > support it fully in the future though." > > -> https://pl

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.04.2014 19:25, schrieb Pavel Volkov: > On Tuesday, 15 April 2014 18:04:54 MSK, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Did you test it? >> >> I think it just works ... >> > > Not yet, but it seems weird to have DHCP= for DHCPv4 and not to have any > options (DHCPv

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.04.2014 00:02, schrieb Pavel Volkov: > On Monday, 31 March 2014 16:14:44 MSK, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Aside from all the discussions around systemd, I simply gave the new >> systemd-networkd a try. >> >> It helped me to simplify my config for my main mac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.04.2014 07:24, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > I just looked up what systemd-networkd and virt-manager do. > > No tap-devices here when I run a local VM ... so I might review the > openrc-script for reference. edited and tested the bridge.service: http://www.oops.co.at/en/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.04.2014 19:14, schrieb Tom H: > You're welcome. > > I've never used virt-manager but I assume that it functions like > virt-install or that it uses virt-install under the gui. > > If that's the case, it won't use predefined tap devices, slaved to a > bridge or not. It'll create vnetX tap d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 06.04.2014 15:02, schrieb Tom H: >> So the openrc-example might be simplified? ok with me ... does anyone >> confirm? > > It depends how you set up your network on the qemu command line. > > If you use "qemu -netdev tap,id=hn0,script=no,downscript=no ...", you need > to set up a tap. > > If

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-04-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 31.03.2014 14:39, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 31.03.2014 14:17, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: >> On 31-Mar-2014 5:45 pm, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >>> >>> >>> Aside from all the discussions around systemd, I simply gave the new >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 31.03.2014 19:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 31.03.2014 09:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 31.03.2014 03:21, schrieb Jonathan Callen: >> >>> USE=acpi does one thing, and one thing only: adds a dependency on >>> sys-power/acpid. USE=multilib

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 31.03.2014 09:38, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 31.03.2014 03:21, schrieb Jonathan Callen: > >> USE=acpi does one thing, and one thing only: adds a dependency on >> sys-power/acpid. USE=multilib installs the 32-bit libGL.so, etc. >> libraries on amd64 (so that

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-03-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 31.03.2014 14:17, schrieb Nilesh Govindrajan: > On 31-Mar-2014 5:45 pm, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >> >> >> Aside from all the discussions around systemd, I simply gave the new >> systemd-networkd a try. >> >> It helped me to simplify my

[gentoo-user] systemd-networkd: simpler config for my network

2014-03-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Aside from all the discussions around systemd, I simply gave the new systemd-networkd a try. It helped me to simplify my config for my main machine where I run KVM for virtualization and need a network bridge: http://www.oops.co.at/en/publications/systemd-networkd-network-configuration-for-a-kvm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-31 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 31.03.2014 03:21, schrieb Jonathan Callen: > USE=acpi does one thing, and one thing only: adds a dependency on > sys-power/acpid. USE=multilib installs the 32-bit libGL.so, etc. > libraries on amd64 (so that `eselect opengl` can set them for both > amd64 and x86). I think I don't need that ...

Re: [gentoo-user] latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 30.03.2014 14:40, schrieb Heiko Baums: > The newest: gentoo-sources-3.13.7 and nvidia-drivers-334.21-r1. > > I've installed nvidia-drivers with USE="X acpi multilib tools uvm > -pax_kernel". > > Had to add the USE flag uvm to get it working. And I reconfigured acpi > in the kernel config. But

[gentoo-user] latest gentoo-sources and nvidia ?

2014-03-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Does anyone already successfully run gentoo-sources-3.13.7 with nvidia-drivers? If yes, which version does work? I am still at 3.13.6 plus nvidia-drivers-331.49 Thanks, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 23:04, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 17.03.2014 22:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> Am 17.03.2014 22:02, schrieb Poison BL.: >> >>> I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular >>> has the tools handy for this, Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 22:42, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Am 17.03.2014 22:02, schrieb Poison BL.: > >> I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular >> has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to >> magic one up, ther

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 22:02, schrieb Poison BL.: > I suspect you don't have a WinPE bootable handy (UBCD in particular > has the tools handy for this, Hiren's as well), but if you happened to > magic one up, there's a quick script called "Fix IDE" (or "Fix HDC" > which does similar) that reverts to the ge

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 21:15, schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Does anyone know if there is a trick applying these drivers *without* >> having a running VMware-Server? > > Try vmware player or vmware workstationon your own machine? ... vmware-player and/or modules don't compile here on my latest kernel 3.13.

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 20:52, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: > Does anyone know if there is a trick applying these drivers *without* > having a running VMware-Server? This link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM/FAQ#How_to_convert_VMware_machines_to_virt-manager.3F says it should be possi

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 20:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > I've been planning to try KVM as well, but am wondering how snapshots work > with KVM. Not been able to find anything about that apart from > disk-snapshots. No info if it's possible to take a copy of the memory as > well. I run KVM in combo with LVM s

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 19:30, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > I know. It usually comes at the least convenient moment. > > I do think it's the customers' fault for not keeping up with normal > maintenance schedules. Most companies write off hardware after 3-4 > years. The support contract with the supplier ended

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 18:53, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Good luck. > Mondays are always fun for that. > > I always prefer weekends for migrations like this. I wasn't asked. The motherboard and power supply were dead this morning. And the customer had nothing else at hand ... so I had to plug the disks int

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.03.2014 18:46, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > Yep, just checked wikipedia. > Got deprecated. Last version dates back to 2009. Yes, I also remember somehow ... so the evening will be spent with installing KVM and migrating 2 VMs ... tmrw morning they expect the services to run. How I love mondays

[gentoo-user] vmware-server is gone?

2014-03-17 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Is it correct that vmware-server is out of portage? I have to migrate and upgrade an old box again and it is running kernel 2.6.25 ... now I have 3.10.25 and realise that it won't compile/run vmware-server ... *sigh* So Plan B is migrating the VMs to KVM quickly ... Thanks for pointers, Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.03.2014 10:25, schrieb Facundo Curti: > About boot... :/ It still not working. I boot from sysresccd Did you boot via EFI or via BIOS? You have to choose (U)EFI in your BIOS to enable the whole EFI-environment. If you boot sysresccd via BIOS you don't get the efi variables accessible.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cant boot with SSD, GPT, GRUB2 and UEFI

2014-03-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.03.2014 08:18, schrieb Facundo Curti: > And this says me: > Fatal: Couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for > accesing EFI variables > Try "modprobe efivars" as root The system has to be booted via UEFI to be able to access the EFI system (and tell it abo

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.03.2014 11:46, schrieb Poncho: On 07.03.2014 11:06, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 07.03.2014 10:35, schrieb Poncho: it may be you're hitting this clutter bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788 https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.03.2014 10:35, schrieb Poncho: > it may be you're hitting this clutter bug: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724788 > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/clutter/commit/?h=clutter-1.16&id=6665f47d66a871b6e1a5f4200282f42da043a0e8 > > https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/690704

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.03.2014 20:06, schrieb »Q«: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:55:10 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: Other windows like terminals or browsers (chrome, opera) are not affected ... but in thunderbird I get flickering message windows which is rather annoying. Sorry, I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.03.2014 18:19, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 05.03.2014 17:58, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: tried thunderbird-bin right now. Same behavior. hmmm. I suspect nvidia-drivers or something ... latest mesa does not compile as well https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481316 I will

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 05.03.2014 17:58, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: tried thunderbird-bin right now. Same behavior. hmmm. I suspect nvidia-drivers or something ... latest mesa does not compile as well https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481316 I will try the mentioned steps and see if things change.

Re: [gentoo-user] flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-05 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.02.2014 06:21, schrieb Stroller: On Wed, 19 February 2014, at 4:38 pm, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: ... What have you done to rule out hardware? nothing. I think hardware would not make only specific apps/windows fail, right? At least it doesn't sound very likely to me ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-26 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 21.02.2014 23:43, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: >> And now with 209 there is a new systemd-networkd deamon that is started >> by default even if not configured or used. >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTYxMTI > > $ ./configure --help | grep networkd > --disable-networ

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: technical review of systemd

2014-02-25 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 25.02.2014 12:38, schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht: > The way systemd services handle network whatever "network manager" you > enable is the last thing preventing me from using systemd on servers. > Seting up manual advanced setups on systemd looks crappy (if even > possible with the provided tools) co

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