[gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
Hi, I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't really understand. I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages. One of them is openrc and the other is linux-util. I don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] maintenance

2014-05-22 Thread Tuomo Hartikainen
On 140522 0851, William Kenworthy wrote: Last year there was an enormous thread on how to maintain gentoo system (portage tools etc) - was this ever summarised anywhere? BillK Was it this one? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/261836 -- Tuomo Hartikainen signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-22 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 21 May 2014 23:11:02 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: wraeth wrote: On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 21.05.2014 23:37, schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:08:17 PM Zoltán Kócsi wrote: Hi, I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't really understand. I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages.

[gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch

2014-05-22 Thread covici
Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under openrc, I used to get a summary of sshd activity, so I could see the failed logins and

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2014 04:54:45 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under openrc, I used to

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Amankwah
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:10:40PM +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:27 +0200 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2014 19:10:40 +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: Empty machine, Gentoo installed from CD and stage3 tarball. It will be a server, so the 'hardened' profile was selected from the offered choices. A few packages (mailserver, bind, webserver, iptables etc) got installed. I want their

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
On Thu, 22 May 2014 17:29:26 +0800 Amankwah amankw...@gmail.com wrote: *DO NOT* add the USE flag doc into you /etc/make.conf, That may cause many unexpected conflict. Somebody had told me this several years before. If you need doc for any package, just add this flag int file

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 May 2014 23:11:02 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: This one is a gem - I forget where I saw it (likely planet, but maybe it was on a list). Stick it in your crontab. I will warn you that sometimes it chokes on its own output and obviously it can't build binpkgs for anything more than

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:30:39 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: doc flag is at fault here. You have changed other flags, such as ipv6, so the advice is to make such sweeping USE flag changes one at a time. This often avoids the problem and otherwise makes it easier to see. Point

[gentoo-user] Re: May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-22 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 22 May 2014 00:45:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/05/2014 00:41, David Abbott wrote: Hi Everyone, We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content to add to the Tip of the month section. Regards David [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 22 May 2014 19:40:51 +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: the output you posted is hard to read because your mailer wrapped it but it may be that updating sysvinit manually first will clear it. emerge -1a sysvinit It did it indeed, so the immediate problem is solved, thanks a lot for

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch

2014-05-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 04:54:45 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, it gives me once a day summaries of such things. When running under openrc, I used

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 11:11:02 PM Rich Freeman wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I run a script that syncs portage, updates @world, depcleans, revdep-rebuild and finally runs dispatch-conf -- about once weekly. Keeps my system in fine trim. :) This

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch

2014-05-22 Thread covici
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, May 22, 2014 04:54:45 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. I use logwatch to get nice summaries of things going on in the system, it gives me once a day summaries of such

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd seems to have broken logwatch

2014-05-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, May 22, 2014 08:31:12 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, May 22, 2014 04:54:45 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am having a strange problem running under systemd since Monday. I use logwatch to get nice summaries of

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem doesn't mount automatically after unclean shutdown

2014-05-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, May 16, 2014 01:12:52 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2014 22:29:46 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I have this weird problem where a filesystem (Ext4) refuses to mount automatically after something like a power loss or forced shutdown. The fstab entry for it is:

Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-22 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: This month has been a treasure trove of such things here on gentoo-user. Oh my, an I have some 6500 unread e-mails... that's hard to catch up. But I'll have a look into this month then :) Wonko

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Donnerstag 22 Mai 2014, 19:10:40 schrieb Zoltán Kócsi: Then, the command and the response: --- ~ # emerge --pretend --newuse @world Hi Zoltan, if you run into issues like this, first try something like emerge -uDNav world (--update --deep --newuse --ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Zoltán Kócsi
On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:42:09 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: if you run into issues like this, first try something like emerge -uDNav world (--update --deep --newuse --ask --verbose; note the deep) (afaik this is the recommended way to update your system anyway)

Re: [gentoo-user] May GMN Tips and Tricks

2014-05-22 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 21 May 2014 18:41:28 -0400 David Abbott dabb...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi Everyone, We are putting together this months GMN [1] Looking for some content to add to the Tip of the month section. Regards David [1] http://blogs.gentoo.org/news You can create a simple shell function like

[gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
I'm working on this btrfs malarkey and have a question about best practice. It is recommended to leave the root volume empty and create a subvolume for the root filesystem which is set with btrfs subvolume set-default, which I have done. What is the recommended way to create subvolumes that are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

2014-05-22 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 05/22/2014 06:34 AM, Jonathan Callen wrote: On 05/21/2014 01:56 PM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Thanks for the explanation. Just to double check I understood it correctly, there's no need to put the list of kernel modules into /etc/conf.d/modules any longer, because udev is aware of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Organising btrfs subvolumes

2014-05-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 22.05.2014 18:12, schrieb Neil Bothwick: I'm working on this btrfs malarkey and have a question about best practice. It is recommended to leave the root volume empty and create a subvolume for the root filesystem which is set with btrfs subvolume set-default, which I have done.

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

2014-05-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/05/2014 16:32, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2014 15:42:09 +0200 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: if you run into issues like this, first try something like emerge -uDNav world (--update --deep --newuse --ask --verbose; note the deep) (afaik this is the