Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, September 5, 2013 05:04, James wrote: Hello, What would folks recommend as a Gentoo installation guide for a 2 disk Raid 1 installation? My previous attempts all failed to trying to follow (integrate info from) a myriad-malaise of old docs. I would start with the Raid+LVM Quick

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID 1 install guide?

2013-09-05 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 05.09.2013 05:04, schrieb James: Do you want to use a software raid of hardware raid? File system that is best for a Raid 1 workstation? Well, of course only file systems being supported by the rescue system of your hosting provider. File system that is best for a Raid 1 (casual

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

2013-09-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, September 5, 2013 04:25, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Walt: On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then I'd need toner. My ill luck was with

Re: [gentoo-user] HP officejet pro 8600 printer (all-in-one)

2013-09-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 07:25:51PM -0700, Thomas Mueller wrote: from Walt: On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then I'd need toner. I do

Re: Integrated ZFS for Gentoo - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo

2013-09-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-09-04 2:49 AM, Marc Stürmer m...@marc-stuermer.de wrote: Well in my point of view it boils down to that: someone wants to use ZFS on Linux. Fine. This means you've got to be a good citizen and obey its license, of course. It is for those legal reasons that ZFS is not included into the

[gentoo-user] Deficient Gnome Window Frames

2013-09-05 Thread gevisz
Usually, when I open a new window frame in Gnome 2, I have a Close, Maximize/Restore and Minimize buttons on its upper-right corner. Sometimes, however, especially when I open a supplementary window frame from a running program, its upper (text) bar contains only the Close button with no

Re: [gentoo-user] PMTUD

2013-09-05 Thread Grant
Here's my layout: laptop+shorewall (MTU:1500) - hotel router (MTU:?) - internet - Westell modem/router (MTU:1492) - desktop+shorewall (MTU:1500) Shouldn't PMTUD change the desktop's MTU to 1492? Your desktop's PMTUD will get an ICMP response from Westell as it tries to traverse through it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't ping remote system

2013-09-05 Thread Grant
I called ATT and they say the Westell 6100 modem/router I have will not respond to pings. They said I could put it into bridged mode and set up PPPoE on the computer connected to it which would cause ICMP packets to pass through to the computer. Would you guys recommend that? For sure I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-05 Thread Grant
This is where it gets tricky. You identify the last router in the list for which you have an address or name, and contact the NOC team for that organization. Ask them for the next hop in routing for the destination address you are trying to ping and hope that they will be kind enough to help

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/09/2013 15:04, Grant wrote: This is where it gets tricky. You identify the last router in the list for which you have an address or name, and contact the NOC team for that organization. Ask them for the next hop in routing for the destination address you are trying to ping and hope that

Re: [gentoo-user] Deficient Gnome Window Frames

2013-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/09/2013 14:51, gevisz wrote: Usually, when I open a new window frame in Gnome 2, I have a Close, Maximize/Restore and Minimize buttons on its upper-right corner. Sometimes, however, especially when I open a supplementary window frame from a running program, its upper (text) bar

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-05 Thread Grant
This is where it gets tricky. You identify the last router in the list for which you have an address or name, and contact the NOC team for that organization. Ask them for the next hop in routing for the destination address you are trying to ping and hope that they will be kind enough to help

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't ping remote system

2013-09-05 Thread Grant
+1 on Alan's hunch. I have not used Squid to comment on the specifics and also Grant stated that another proxy gave him similar symptoms. From my limited knowledge a proxy could be stalling because of cache configuration problems, like running out fs space, or inodes and also running out of

[gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-05 Thread Grant
Has anyone found a way to completely sanitize images of all potentially privacy-invading metadata for posting online? I recently discovered that there is actually an EXIF thumbnail image. So if you have a photo and you crop it and post it online, the EXIF thumbnail of the original uncropped

[gentoo-user] Where is the file which masks glibc-2.18?

2013-09-05 Thread 东方巽雷
I cannot find glibc-2.18 in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask,but glibc-2.18 is being masked.I would like to know which file masks glibc-2.18.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the file which masks glibc-2.18?

2013-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/09/2013 16:35, 东方巽雷 wrote: I cannot find glibc-2.18 in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask,but glibc-2.18 is being masked.I would like to know which file masks glibc-2.18. Sometimes masks like this are in the profile, but in this case Wang is correct. Here's how you find out: $ emerge -pv

[gentoo-user] GRE link state detection

2013-09-05 Thread thegeezer
Howdy all, i was wondering if anyone has any idea if there is a means by which i can detect GRE link state ? what i have is two sites each with two very unstable internet links in order to vpn between them i have ipsec tunnels linking each side twice (four ipsec tunnels in total) i then have 4x

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the file which masks glibc-2.18?

2013-09-05 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/9/5 东方巽雷 dongfangxun...@gmail.com: I cannot find glibc-2.18 in /usr/portage/profile/package.mask,but glibc-2.18 is being masked.I would like to know which file masks glibc-2.18. Isn't it KEYWORD=? I noticed its ebuild's KEYWORDS line is commented out.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-05 Thread thegeezer
On 09/05/2013 02:32 PM, Grant wrote: Has anyone found a way to completely sanitize images of all potentially privacy-invading metadata for posting online? I recently discovered that there is actually an EXIF thumbnail image. So if you have a photo and you crop it and post it online, the EXIF

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-05 Thread Daniel Frey
Hi Grant, Yes, I just had to do this myself. There are two packages: jhead and exiftool. The former does jpegs only. I wound up using exiftool, there's a single command to strip all metadata: exiftool -all= *.jpg If I remember right that creates a copy of the file it processes. You can use

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: This is the process I always follow: http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array The sfdisk trick will save you a bit of hassle. Thanks, it looks like I was on the right path! Crossing my

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/05/2013 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my house. The array is a RAID6 (two

[gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I woke up this morning to see the dreaded email from mdadm telling me one of my drives failed overnight, while I was happily dreaming about cute puppies and kittens installing a rainbow-colored roof on my house. The array is a RAID6 (two parity drives) and this is the current state: md0 :

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} image metadata and privacy

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone found a way to completely sanitize images of all potentially privacy-invading metadata for posting online? I recently discovered that there is actually an EXIF thumbnail image. So if you have a photo and you crop it

Re: [gentoo-user] cupsd (localhost:631) trouble (FIXED)

2013-09-05 Thread gottlieb
For some reason lines changed in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf. Many pairs were drop where the first line was blank and the second a comment. But a few non-blank non-comment lines changed and that did it. All is well Thanks to all, allan

[gentoo-user] must I mask gnome-3.8 until I am running systemd

2013-09-05 Thread gottlieb
[I will be going to systemd since it is aparently required for gnome-3.8. I first want to try systemd on a test system so am building that one up.] On my main system (currently running openrc) I have masked all of gnome-3.8. I wonder if this was an error and I can remove the mask. Is it the

[gentoo-user] Re: must I mask gnome-3.8 until I am running systemd

2013-09-05 Thread walt
On 09/05/2013 05:43 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [I will be going to systemd since it is aparently required for gnome-3.8. I first want to try systemd on a test system so am building that one up.] On my main system (currently running openrc) I have masked all of gnome-3.8. I wonder if this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: must I mask gnome-3.8 until I am running systemd

2013-09-05 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 8:19 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/05/2013 05:43 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: [I will be going to systemd since it is aparently required for gnome-3.8. I first want to try systemd on a test system so am building that one up.] On my main system (currently

Re: [gentoo-user] A drive in my RAID6 has failed

2013-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: This is the process I always follow: http://www.howtoforge.com/replacing_hard_disks_in_a_raid1_array The sfdisk trick will save

[gentoo-user] Re: systemd and LUKS

2013-09-05 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/04/2013 11:12 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:16:55AM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Well, it’s an experiment, but I’m still quite hesitant to switch. It really shuts down fast (1 to 2 seconds or so), but I