Re: [gentoo-user] Its ground hog day... how to escape the syndrome?

2017-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 02/03/2017 06:33, Harry Putnam wrote: > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe. > It is not clear to me why something like

[gentoo-user] lxde no Desktop Preferences can be set

2017-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram LXDE on the menu item Preferences ===> Desktop Preferences Nothing can be set there and it does not even show a dialog box... just an error messages that says:

[gentoo-user] VIDEO_CARDS= apparently ignored and new pkgs assigned

2017-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I'm having a situation where way too many packages are coming up needing rebuilt during emerge world. Decided to see what `emerge @preserved-rebuild would bring me.

[gentoo-user] Its ground hog day... how to escape the syndrome?

2017-03-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe. It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is to be done to prevent

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 01/03/17 23:05, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-03-01 um 15:42 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> Never hurts to try the low hanging fruit first :) >> >> Have you tried lshw? > > did so right now: > > > > *-disk:2 > description: SCSI Disk >

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/01/2017 08:31 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-03-01 um 16:49 schrieb Daniel Frey: > >>> Have you tried `lsblk -O`? >>> >>> Dan >>> >> >> Well, I forgot how much info that barfs out. >> >> Try `lsblk -o name,model,serial` instead. > > nice one, thanks. > But the shown serials

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2017-03-01 um 16:49 schrieb Daniel Frey: >> Have you tried `lsblk -O`? >> >> Dan >> > > Well, I forgot how much info that barfs out. > > Try `lsblk -o name,model,serial` instead. nice one, thanks. But the shown serials don't match the serials on the disk(s) :-( I also tried "-O" and

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/01/2017 07:45 AM, Daniel Frey wrote: > On 03/01/2017 07:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: >> Am 2017-03-01 um 15:42 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> >>> Never hurts to try the low hanging fruit first :) >>> >>> Have you tried lshw? >> >> did so right now: >> >> >> >> *-disk:2 >>

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 03/01/2017 07:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-03-01 um 15:42 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> Never hurts to try the low hanging fruit first :) >> >> Have you tried lshw? > > did so right now: > > > > *-disk:2 > description: SCSI Disk >

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2017-03-01 um 15:42 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > Never hurts to try the low hanging fruit first :) > > Have you tried lshw? did so right now: *-disk:2 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.2.0 bus info: scsi@1:0.2.0

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:46:00 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> and I would like to know which hard disk (vendor, serial) each > >> /dev/sdX is. > > > > hdparm -i /dev/sdX > > > # hdparm -i /dev/sdi > > /dev/sdi: > SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2017-03-01 um 14:39 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:04:45 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >> and I would like to know which hard disk (vendor, serial) each >> /dev/sdX is. > > hdparm -i /dev/sdX # hdparm -i /dev/sdi /dev/sdi: SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: 70 00

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:04:45 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > and I would like to know which hard disk (vendor, serial) each /dev/sdX > is. hdparm -i /dev/sdX -- Neil Bothwick Yes, I've heard of "decaf." What's your point? pgpO4mntXn3qg.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Intermittent nouveau graphics failures

2017-03-01 Thread Devrin Talen
Hey all, My desktop system has an NVidia graphics card that identifies as: % lspci -v # snip... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd GK107 [GeForce GTX 650]

[gentoo-user] sg_map etc

2017-03-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
could someone help me out? I have this software-raid: md3 : active raid6 sdi1[8] sdh1[6] sdg1[4] sdf1[5] sde1[3] sdd1[2] sdc1[0] 4391334912 blocks level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [8/6] [U_U_] [>] recovery = 22.8% (167386900/731889152) finish=196.6min

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Need coaching with emerge failure logs (Understanting the problem)

2017-03-01 Thread Miroslav Rovis
I must not abbreviate this time... On 170228-20:07-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Miroslav Rovis writes: > > > On 170226-09:42-0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Stroller writes: > > ... > >> > >> > Example at the beginning: [32;01m * >