[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-07-29 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Michael and All, Long time ago, on Wednesday, 2021-03-31 12:21:27 +0100, wrote: > ... > OK, unless you made a typo and the "minutes" were meant to say seconds, this > is ridiculously slow. Yes, it really were minutes. > You could run some tests to see what is causing the delay. The

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2021-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 29/07/21 10:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I just directly formatted one of my two Philips 128G USB 3.0 sticks with > "mkntfs" and the write performance without VeraCrypt did not improve. > Further searching the web I found that vendors were rarely specifying > the writing speeds of their

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

2021-07-29 Thread Wols Lists
On 26/07/21 22:00, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 06:10:19PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > > >> I've had more drives go bad when using USB enclosures than I've ever had >> on IDE or (e)SATA. > > Interesting, I can’t really confirm such a correlation from the drives I > have lying

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:46:16PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > > Yea. First the SMR fiasco became public and then there was some other PR > > stunt they did that I can’t remember right now, and I said “I can’t buy WD > > anymore”. But there is no real alternative these days. And CMR drives are >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:29:46 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > Indeed, and it won't delete anything crucial for your system, and even > > more, it won't delete anything what you need. But you have to tell > > portage *what* you need and *what* is crucial for your system. > > The handbook

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Martin Vaeth
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> > Less clever people like me follow the handbook, and assume that >> > packages in @system are protected. > >> And they are right to do so. And openrc is not in @system (at least not >> in the profile which you have chosen), and certainly the handbook does >> not claim

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Martin Vaeth
Rich Freeman wrote: > The more I heard on this the more I tend to think that maybe it > should either not be in that virtual or that it should itself depend > on openrc/etc, or that qmail shouldn't depend on it. I strongly disagree. You have the same problem if you have any other init system

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Martin Vaeth
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2021-07-29, Martin Vaeth wrote: > >> The handbook contains the instruction how to do this: Put the packages >> you need into the @world file. > [...] > > Is this documented somewhere in the handbook? I always supposed that it is documented in the handbook that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 5:38 PM Martin Vaeth wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > My understanding is that qmali contains a "daemon" which does not > daemonize itself. To my knowledge, you can start such a thing > only with daemontools and systemd; probably the start-daemon of > openrc is not

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:55:18PM +0200 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: > In case someone is interested, here’s a little experience report: > […] > I just finished transferring my existing Borg backup repos. > […] > I’ve since been writing 1,2 TiB to the drive with rsync happily without > any

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-29 Thread thelma
On 7/29/21 8:42 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > dev-lang/perl:0 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 4:24 PM Martin Vaeth wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > The more I heard on this the more I tend to think that maybe it > > should either not be in that virtual or that it should itself depend > > on openrc/etc, or that qmail shouldn't depend on it. > > I strongly

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2021-07-29, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Indeed, and it won't delete anything crucial for your system, and even > more, it won't delete anything what you need. But you have to tell > portage *what* you need and *what* is crucial for your system. > The handbook contains the instruction how to do

[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-29 Thread Martin Vaeth
Rich Freeman wrote: > > First, it doesn't sound like qmail actually requires daemontools, but > simply happens to include a daemontools service config. My understanding is that qmali contains a "daemon" which does not daemonize itself. To my knowledge, you can start such a thing only with

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-29 Thread thelma
I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-lang/perl:0 (dev-lang/perl-5.34.0:0/5.34::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="gdbm -berkdb

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-29 Thread thelma
On 7/29/21 9:10 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: [snip] > It seems to me "dev-lang/perl-5.34" was made stable and it is causing a > problem. > I've tried to block perl-5.34 but I'm getting another conflict: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] SMR drives (WAS: cryptsetup close and device in use when it is not)

2021-07-29 Thread William Kenworthy
On 30/7/21 4:55 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 05:46:16PM +0100 schrieb Wols Lists: > >>> Yea. First the SMR fiasco became public and then there was some other PR >>> stunt they did that I can’t remember right now, and I said “I can’t buy WD >>> anymore”. But there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0

2021-07-29 Thread thelma
On 7/29/21 8:42 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to run an upgrade but I got stuck on perl: > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > dev-lang/perl:0 > >