Re: [gentoo-user] Installing BTRFS on MBR with OpenRC

2015-08-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 15 August 2015 12:03:32 I wrote: It looks as though Neil has hit the nail on the head. It turns out that the kernel command line has to specify either the label or the UUID of the root partition. I prefer the more legible label, thus: menuentry 'Gentoo Linux 4.0.5' { linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Diagnosing file corruption

2015-08-16 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 12:00:30PM +1000, wraeth wrote: On 06/08/15 10:34, Bryan Gardiner wrote: After I make a fresh backup of my files, how would you recommend troubleshooting this? Run memtest or a hard drive tester? Since the files seemingly corrupted themselves after install without

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing digest for *** Tree looks messed up.

2015-08-16 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: The result is that the next morning I have an email containing a list of the stuff to be merged, and a set of binary packages for most of it (deps of modified packages cannot be

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread walt
I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the keyboard stops working. Almost like somebody unplugged the keyboard from its usb port (except that the LED on the keyboard stays lit so I know the power is

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/08/2015 18:45, walt wrote: I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the keyboard stops working. Almost like somebody unplugged the keyboard from its usb port (except that the LED on the keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing digest for *** Tree looks messed up.

2015-08-16 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 10 August 2015 09:13:01 Dale wrote: I might add, sync is taking a LONG time again. Of course, my DSL is a bit slower than some folks. At least the bumpy road got smoothed

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing digest for *** Tree looks messed up.

2015-08-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Rich Freeman wrote: The result is that the next morning I have an email containing a list of the stuff to be merged, and a set of binary packages for most of it (deps of modified packages cannot be pre-built in this way of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-16 17:07, walt a écrit : On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:48:04 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2015 21:42, walt wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:58:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2015 18:45, walt wrote: I've been seeing this

[gentoo-user] [far OT] Source of spectacular (free) desktop wallpapers

2015-08-16 Thread walt
They have a photo contest every year and the photos just keep getting better and better: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest-2015/gallery/winners-outdoor-scenes/4 That particular photo is one of a dozen or so I downloaded, and I love them all so much that I switched back to xfce4

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread walt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:27:41 -0400 Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote: But yes, kernel 3.18.19 still has my same keyboard halting problem, so I'm back to 3.14.50 until the ati-drivers package is patched. I'm sure gentoo-sources-3.18.20 will be available almost immediately and I'm

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread walt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:34:08 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: Affirmative, and thereby hangs yet another woeful tale. I've been running the gentoo-sources-3.14.xx series forever because I wearied of spending so many hours debugging unstable kernels. This morning I

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread walt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:58:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2015 18:45, walt wrote: I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the keyboard stops working. Almost like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Michel Catudal
Le 2015-08-16 21:43, walt a écrit : On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 19:27:41 -0400 Michel Catudal mcatu...@comcast.net wrote: But yes, kernel 3.18.19 still has my same keyboard halting problem, so I'm back to 3.14.50 until the ati-drivers package is patched. I'm sure gentoo-sources-3.18.20 will be

Re: [gentoo-user] Configuring hostapd

2015-08-16 Thread Cor Legemaat
On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 15:20 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Monday, August 10, 2015 8:59:27 AM Cor Legemaat wrote: On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 23:41 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On Thursday, August 06, 2015 7:04:27 AM Cor Legemaat wrote: On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 01:00 -0400, Fernando

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread walt
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:48:04 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2015 21:42, walt wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:58:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2015 18:45, walt wrote: I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Dale
walt wrote: Affirmative, and thereby hangs yet another woeful tale. I've been running the gentoo-sources-3.14.xx series forever because I wearied of spending so many hours debugging unstable kernels. This morning I decided to take a giant leap forward all the way to 3.18.19 (BTW 3.18.20 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 16/08/2015 21:42, walt wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 18:58:27 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/08/2015 18:45, walt wrote: I've been seeing this keyboard problem for the past few weeks: after running some command from a bash prompt (haven't tried zsh yet) the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Keyboard stops working several times/day

2015-08-16 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 16:34:08 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: Affirmative, and thereby hangs yet another woeful tale. I've been running the gentoo-sources-3.14.xx series forever because I wearied of spending so many hours debugging unstable kernels. This