[gentoo-ppc-user] SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 and the Nemo PowerPC Board

2013-12-13 Thread Christian Zigotzky
Hi all, If you don't want to join the Cyrus Plus beta test team but you need a new PowerPC board, then you can maybe have interest in a new Nemo board. There are a last delivery of Nemo motherbards. For the Nemo there are a lot of Linux distributions available (Debian, Ubuntu (+ Live DVD),

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/12/2013 00:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem until I traveled and tried to connect wirelessly. The problem must have started sometime within the past month. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 18:06:40 -0800, Grant wrote: I may end up using portage instead of rsync but I think I'd like to try rsync first. Am I setting myself up for failure? Tried and tested system maintenance tool vs. home brewed modification of critical files... I'd say a definite possibility

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:49:01 -0800, Grant wrote: What if the push is done while no one is logged in to the system(s) being updated? I could also exclude /dev, /sys, /proc, and /run and reboot after the update. If that's not good enough, what if I boot the systems being updated into

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 13 Dec 2013 07:04:23 Mick wrote: I rebuilt kde-utils meta with USE=-cups to find out that umpteen packages want to be depcleaned: ---8 I may leave this until I have more time to look into it. For comparison, here's the list of packages that would be pulled in if I were to rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/12/2013 00:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following problem until I traveled and tried to connect

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 13/12/2013 14:57, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:59 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/12/2013 00:47, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: At home I use a wired connection so did notice the following

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 04:47:03PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I have never used wicd, so I can't say exactly what it's the problem; but I was under the impression that wicd is basically dead. Its last release was more than a year and a half ago. I haven't read the other posts after

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:05:14PM -0500, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: thanks but I had done that and the command is simply /usr/sbin/wicd --no-daemon Perhaps relevant is Type=dbus Canek points out that wicd has had no new releases. Perhaps I should switch to networkmanager. I will try that

[gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Rühmann
Hi all, had some troubles to build sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r2. snip Emerging (4 of 6) sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r2 * spl-0.6.2.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...[ ok ] * spl-0.6.2-p1.tar.xz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Rühmann
Am 13.12.2013 18:34, schrieb Michael Rühmann: Hi all, had some troubles to build sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r2. snip Emerging (4 of 6) sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r2 * spl-0.6.2.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...[ ok ] *

[gentoo-user] Nut and networked UPS config

2013-12-13 Thread Tanstaafl
Hello all, I have a network accessible UPS (Powerware 9150 with the network option installed), so am looking for tips on how to properly configure a gentoo VM running on ESXi to initiate a safe shutdown during an extended power outage via this network card. Looks like nut has full support

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread hasufell
On 12/13/2013 06:48 PM, Michael Rühmann wrote: Am 13.12.2013 18:34, schrieb Michael Rühmann: Hi all, had some troubles to build sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r2. snip Emerging (4 of 6) sys-kernel/spl-0.6.2-r2 * spl-0.6.2.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:59:41PM +0100, hasufell wrote: The problem is now: How do i set CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE in menuconfig? Maybe i'm completely blind... Thanks in advance for any help, Mosh lol, done! As i thought...i was blind :D You could at least say how you did it.

[gentoo-user] Re: [~amd64] Recent spurious error messages from systemd?

2013-12-13 Thread walt
On 12/12/2013 07:01 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: For example, during bootup, systemd said that swap.target failed, but in fact swap was working normally when I logged in, and systemctl status swap.target showed no error messages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 Dec 2013 10:49:24 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 13 Dec 2013 07:04:23 Mick wrote: I rebuilt kde-utils meta with USE=-cups to find out that umpteen packages want to be depcleaned: ---8 I may leave this until I have more time to look into it. For comparison, here's the

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 13.12.2013 20:21, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:59:41PM +0100, hasufell wrote: The problem is now: How do i set CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE in menuconfig? Maybe i'm completely blind... Thanks in advance for any help, Mosh lol, done! As i thought...i was blind :D You could

Re: [gentoo-user] recent trouble with wicd and systemd (non-global ctrl_ifname)

2013-12-13 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Dec 13 2013, Bruce Hill wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 08:05:14PM -0500, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: thanks but I had done that and the command is simply /usr/sbin/wicd --no-daemon Perhaps relevant is Type=dbus Canek points out that wicd has had no new releases. Perhaps I should

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread hasufell
On 12/13/2013 08:21 PM, Bruce Hill wrote: What *is* so difficult about that? Nothing.

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:21:42 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: You could at least say how you did it. *sigh* maybe even add the kernel part to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS mingdao@baruch ~ $ zgrep CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y What *is* so difficult about

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Rühmann
Am 13.12.2013 21:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: Am 13.12.2013 20:21, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 07:59:41PM +0100, hasufell wrote: The problem is now: How do i set CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE in menuconfig? Maybe i'm completely blind... Thanks in advance for any help, Mosh lol,

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig. On the other hand ZLIB_DEFLATE is turned on by a douzend of other options that it is VERY probable you never have to

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:53:39AM +0100, Michael Rühmann wrote: mingdao@baruch ~ $ zgrep CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE /proc/config.gz CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE=y What *is* so difficult about that? well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig.

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 14.12.2013 01:04, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig. On the other hand ZLIB_DEFLATE is turned on by a douzend of other options that

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Rühmann
Am 14.12.2013 01:04, schrieb Bruce Hill: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:08:54PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: well, you won't find it in menuconfig. Or at least I couldn't. You can reach that option in xconfig. On the other hand ZLIB_DEFLATE is turned on by a douzend of other options that it

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:47:44PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Dec 2013 13:21:42 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: You could at least say how you did it. *sigh* maybe even add the kernel part to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS mingdao@baruch ~ $ zgrep CONFIG_ZLIB_DEFLATE

Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS on Linux (spl build error)

2013-12-13 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 01:13:06AM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Any time you can't see how to enable a kernel option, just search for it and look at the Selected By field to see what you need to turn it on: Symbol: ZLIB_DEFLATE [=y] Type : tristate Defined at lib/Kconfig:198

[gentoo-user] [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected

2013-12-13 Thread walt
I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 feature by doing it that way :( The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which exposes the favorites menu if you move the mouse pointer *very*

Re: [gentoo-user] [gnome3 stable] Not as bad as I expected

2013-12-13 Thread Alecks Gates
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 7:10 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I've been preparing for gnome3 for many months by running it in a virtualbox gentoo-guest machine. I missed a very important gnome3 feature by doing it that way :( The gnome-shell desktop has a 'gestures-based' feature, which