Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon driver - blank console [SOLVED]

2015-01-06 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 06 Jan 2015 10:09:25 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 01/05/2015 02:49:04 PM, Florian Gamböck wrote: > > Am 05.01.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > > > Which (framebuffer?) kernel parameters have to set? > > > > Try compiling CONFIG_DRM_RADEON as module and do not enable any frame > >

[gentoo-user] Installing a thingy that does not have an ebuild

2015-01-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I'm trying to install an engineering package by the name of Salome-meca. There is no ebuild for this. They claim to have a "universal installer" but I've spent too much time trying to get this thingy to work and can now confidently say it's not too universal. There are inst

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs

2015-01-06 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/07/2015 02:03 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > First question: > > I have this in my /etc/fstab and I'm not certain it > is necessary or needs to be removed to facility cleanly > mounting /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs (ram): > > current fstab: > > shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,n

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-06 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 01/04/2015 09:47 AM, Sid S wrote: > >> SELinux is the only one I've had a bit of experience with - I run CentOS >> (SELinux is enabled by default) for some personal-use-only services that >> I want to run without dealing with Gentoo. My first step in a CentOS >> install is to disable SELinux (a

Re: [gentoo-user] NSA SELinux kernel support

2015-01-06 Thread Sid S
> ...until it doesn't, and then what? The comment was slightly off-topic and mainly pointed towards his decision to disable SELinux on a distribution which had enabled it by default. On Gentoo, if you enable SELinux, see all of the AVCs and decide to nope right out of there, you are making an info

[gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs

2015-01-06 Thread James
Hello, First question: I have this in my /etc/fstab and I'm not certain it is necessary or needs to be removed to facility cleanly mounting /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs (ram): current fstab: shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0 [1]. Perhaps there is a better (updated wiki) r

Re: [gentoo-user] lsof on fail2ban

2015-01-06 Thread Mickaël Bucas
Looking at the code, Fail2ban uses Inotify to know when a file has changed, and only at that point it's open and read. Inotify watches don't appear in open files. Mickaël 2015-01-06 1:53 GMT+01:00 Adam Carter : > AFAIK fail2ban tails log files to find login failures, but when i try lsof > its n

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon driver - blank console

2015-01-06 Thread bitlord
On Monday, January 05, 2015 02:42:46 PM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > the recent update of virtual/opengl forced me to switch from my ati > [legacy] driver to the open source driver (radeon) > > While I got X11 running, my console gets blanked before I can log in > on the command line. > > Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] eix-update, run from root, failed to write database file

2015-01-06 Thread Gevisz
On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 13:11:02 +0100 Florian Gamböck wrote: > Am 05.01.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Gevisz: > > After today's world update, the eix-update command, run under root, > > failed to "open the database file '/var/cache/eix/portage.eix' for writing." > > > > Nevertheless, the same command, run w

Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon driver - blank console [SOLVED]

2015-01-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/05/2015 02:49:04 PM, Florian Gamböck wrote: > Am 05.01.2015 um 14:42 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: > > Which (framebuffer?) kernel parameters have to set? > > Try compiling CONFIG_DRM_RADEON as module and do not enable any frame > > buffers, especially not CONFIG_FB_RADEON, as absurd as it sound