Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/04/2015 00:02, walt wrote: > On 04/28/2015 08:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> Personally, I like the ZFS approach and do it all in software, catching >>> errors that RAID misses. >> >> The same is also possible with BTRFS, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/04/2015 17:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> When you use only LVM for this and nothing else, you have a high risk of >> losing everything if one disk fails. Why? Because LVM decides itself >> which extent it will put data on. Maybe a wh

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread hydra
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:38 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 29 April 2015 00:34:10 CEST, symack wrote: > >Hello Joost, > > > >We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen > > > >menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo > >--class > >gnu-linux --class gnu --class os -

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 29 April 2015 00:34:10 CEST, symack wrote: >Hello Joost, > >We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen > >menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo >--class >gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen $menuentry_id_option >'xen-gnulinux-simple-43fa46d6-a602-428

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 6:02 PM, walt wrote: > On 04/28/2015 08:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> Personally, I like the ZFS approach and do it all in software, catching >>> errors that RAID misses. >> >> The same is also possible with B

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 26/04/2015 23:28, Philip Webb wrote: > 150426 Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 04/26/2015 03:17 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> Portage needs to tell users (1) more clearly what's gone wrong, >>> (2) what their choices are, (3) how to resolve the problem. >> The process goes something like this: >> 1. B

[gentoo-user] Re: wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

2015-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2015 09:59 AM, Justin Findlay wrote: > I am unable to emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4-r1. I've > encountered this on two systems now. > > The output included has been insensitively thrashed by thunderbird, so > I've also pasted it along with some other info. > > https://gist.gith

Re: [gentoo-user] xen on new install reboots by itself

2015-04-28 Thread symack
Hello Joost, We are running Grub2. Bellow is my grub.cfg for Xen menuentry 'Gentoo GNU/Linux, with Xen hypervisor' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os --class xen $menuentry_id_option 'xen-gnulinux-simple-43fa46d6-a602-4281-9493-66faec5c096f' { insmod part_msdos

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 15:59:17 -0500 »Q« wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:01:06 +0300 > Matti Nykyri wrote: > > > How could I get firefox to use hw0,3 or hw1,3 for HTML5 audio > > playback? > > There is no way. Mozilla products will only ever use card 0. I had > to solve it on a laptop I once

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread walt
On 04/28/2015 08:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Personally, I like the ZFS approach and do it all in software, catching >> errors that RAID misses. > > The same is also possible with BTRFS, I have the impression (without knowing what I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Daniel Frey wrote: > On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: >> What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a >> larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half >> dozen of the other thing? > I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four d

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 18:01:06 +0300 Matti Nykyri wrote: > How could I get firefox to use hw0,3 or hw1,3 for HTML5 audio > playback? There is no way. Mozilla products will only ever use card 0. I had to solve it on a laptop I once had, but I don't remember the details. I think no amount of tink

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread covici
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote > > > Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. > > > > I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer > > versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "yo

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 22:18:05 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > I would perhaps try rebuilding with USE=system-libvpx and checking > > the https://www.youtube.com/html5 page again. > > I believe that's just an option between using the libvpx bundled with > firefox as recommended by mozilla, or

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 18:58:55 -0400 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > Do you have the "OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems" > firefox add-on installed (I think it comes with firefox). I have it > but I still don't have H.264 checked on that page and I can't play > some H.264 videos like this

[gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Martin Vaeth
Philip Webb wrote: > >> If you're willing to wait an hour, it might be able to come up >> with a list of ways you could resolve a conflict, but basically >> all of them will be wrong, eg suggestion #1, uninstall everything. > > Really, this is a flippant response to a serious issue, No. It is how

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 14:31:23 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> btrfs raid5 is still fairly experimental (though now it supports > >> recovery) and works more-or-less how you'd expect raid5 to work. > >> Raid1 on btrfs gives you the capacity of n/2 and not n-1 disks, > > > > You're right, I was cle

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:38:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 >> > in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, >> > such as giving the capacity of

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Daniel Frey
On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: > What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a > larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half > dozen of the other thing? I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four drives in it. I actually g

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 13:38:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 > > in btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, > > such as giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk > > failure. > > btr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 18:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > 40 GB of unused space on a RAID1 of SAS hdds. Nice! > > Sounds like my new rootfs ;-) > > dracut plus these md-lines should work then. call me "coward" or "defensive": I used genkernel ... and now the server is up and running with gentoo linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > The same is also possible with BTRFS, including built in RAID. RAID5 in > btrfs is expermiental, but its RAID1 is like RAID5 in some ways, such as > giving the capacity of n-1 disks and tolerating a single disk failure. > btrfs raid5 is st

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant cannot find crypto routines

2015-04-28 Thread Justin Findlay
I am unable to emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-2.4-r1. I've encountered this on two systems now. The output included has been insensitively thrashed by thunderbird, so I've also pasted it along with some other info. https://gist.github.com/jfindlay/b3fc74bda7d4cfb5a2dc The first is the resul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 16:53, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I now booted from a recent sysresccd ... and it didn't assemble/detect > the LVM-PV ... *sigh* > > So I couldn't even mount the LV to chroot in there. > > The mdadm-RAID-devices were there and active. > > I didn't want to screw around with th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 April 2015 18:03:28 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >On 28.04.2015 17:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 28 April 2015 17:37:06 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" > wrote: >>> On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. Did you see those

[gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just add

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Philip Webb
150427 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> I'm not saying it can't be done, but it's deceptively hard >> to automatically come up with a list of non-ridiculous suggestions >> before the user in question dies of old age : https://xkcd.com/1425/ . That expresses t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 17:42, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 28 April 2015 17:37:06 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >> On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >>> I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. >>> Did you see those? >> >> no ... got to dig, thanks > > Sent on 25th. Initramfs in subj

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:24:59AM +0100, Stroller wrote > Personally, I would probably also try a later version of Firefox. > > I appreciate that 31.x is the latest stable version, but I doubt newer > versions are actually unstable in any way, and if I google "youtube > html5 firefox" I find tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 April 2015 17:37:06 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. >> Did you see those? > >no ... got to dig, thanks Sent on 25th. Initramfs in subject. Happy hunting. :) -- Sent from my Android device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 28.04.2015 17:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I sent my files on a seperate thread last weekend. > Did you see those? no ... got to dig, thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 April 2015 10:33:32 CEST, "Stefan G. Weichinger" wrote: >On 24.04.2015 13:56, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> dracut has to assemble /dev/md3 at first (this is the single PV in >the >>> VG VG01) >>> >>> and /dev/VG01/genroot then is the filesystem with the new >gentoo-rootfs >>> >>> I only added s

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 28 Apr 2015 17:01:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > When you use only LVM for this and nothing else, you have a high risk of > losing everything if one disk fails. Why? Because LVM decides itself > which extent it will put data on. Maybe a whole file is on one disk, > maybe it's spread acro

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Dale wrote: > > What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a > larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half > dozen of the other thing? > Generally I buy drives at the sweet spot in cost/capacity, so that is abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/04/2015 10:39, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to > be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The > 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before > to long. So, I got to thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I now booted from a recent sysresccd ... and it didn't assemble/detect the LVM-PV ... *sigh* So I couldn't even mount the LV to chroot in there. The mdadm-RAID-devices were there and active. I didn't want to screw around with the LVM too much as there is data on there (yes, there are backups, b

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Francisco Ares
2015-04-28 5:39 GMT-03:00 Dale : > Howdy, > > I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to > be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The > 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before > to long. So, I got to thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/26/2015 04:48 PM, james wrote: > > One simple fix is this blockage of packages that do not need to be blocked. > When I wait more than 5 or 6 days to update, I often get many packages to > build, running something like 'emerge -uDNvp world'. Yes I know I can sit > there and go through every

[gentoo-user] Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-04-28 Thread wabenbau
I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in this list some weeks/months ago, but I can't find them. Regards wabe

[gentoo-user] Re: Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-04-26 10:49, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > When I read a blog in Firefox 31.6.0, there are often You Tube film > clips embedded in it. When I attempt to view these, I am getting, > more and more frequently, the error message (f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

2015-04-28 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On 24.04.2015 13:56, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> dracut has to assemble /dev/md3 at first (this is the single PV in the >> VG VG01) >> >> and /dev/VG01/genroot then is the filesystem with the new gentoo-rootfs >> >> I only added stuff like rd.md=1 etc ... I think I got the assembling >> wrong. And mayb

[gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Howdy, I have a 3TB hard drive that I use for my /home partition. I'm going to be having to expand this before to long, lots of videos on there. The 4TB is a bit pricey and I would end up having to expand that to before to long. So, I got to thinking, why not buy another 3TB drive and just add

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 04/26/2015 05:28 PM, Philip Webb wrote: More seriously, once you start working on (3), you'll realize that just because the error msgs suck doesn't mean you can make them better. >>> If they "suck", they're no

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

2015-04-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/04/2015 00:23, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 04/26/2015 05:28 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> >>> More seriously, once you start working on (3), you'll realize >>> that just because the error msgs suck doesn't mean you can make them better. >> >> If they "suck", they're not worth issuing, are they ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Apr 27, 2015, at 3:24, Stroller wrote: > > >> On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >> The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: >> >> USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags >> -custom-optimization -debug -gst

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem compiling dev-lang/gdl-0.9.4

2015-04-28 Thread marco restelli
Sorry, the subject in my previous message was wrong. Marco 2015-04-28 15:53 GMT+0200, marco restelli : > Hi all, >I am trying to install dev-lang/gdl-0.9.4 but I see the following > error: > > > -- Could NOT find PLPLOT (missing: PLPLOT_LIBRARIES) > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:313 (message

[gentoo-user] Problem compiling sci-libs/plplot-5.11.0

2015-04-28 Thread marco restelli
Hi all, I am trying to install dev-lang/gdl-0.9.4 but I see the following error: -- Could NOT find PLPLOT (missing: PLPLOT_LIBRARIES) CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:313 (message): plplot library is required but was not found. Use -DPLPLOTDIR=DIR to specify the plplot directory tree. (s

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: > > > >USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > >-custom-optimization -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: > > > >USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > >-custom-optimization -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: > > > >USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > >-custom-optimization -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: > > > >USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > >-custom-optimization -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Half error message on attempting to access You Tube from Firefox

2015-04-28 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday, April 27, 2015 1:24:59 AM Stroller wrote: > > On Sun, 26 April 2015, at 3:49 pm, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > The following USE flags were used in my building of firefox 31.6.0: > > > >USE="bindist dbus jit minimal startup-notification -custom-cflags > >-custom-optimization -d