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

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:33:56PM -0500, 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

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

Neil Bothwick writes: >> Also ran into a wall trying to use the regular tools like qlist to >> determine what is in there. I found the list after search a while on >> google but I'm curious why `qlist' doesn't list off >> what is in there, like it does in all other cases. >

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

On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 18:54:20 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > >> All the lxde-base pkgs contained in lxde-meta are installed. > >> > >> Openbox wm is installed. > >> > >> Anyone know what that error message means or how to get around or fix > >> it? >

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:26 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 03:42:24 -0500 taii...@gmx.com wrote: >> >> The IOMMU (theoretically) protects the CPU and memory from rogue >> devices, such as the hard drive. > > No. Any DMA capable device can bypass IOMMU. IOMMU

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

Neil Bothwick writes: > On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:27:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> 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: >> >> Desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 18:05:29 +0100 Miroslav Rovis wrote: [...] > Gentoo Keys > --- > > ### About > > Gentoo Keys is a Python based project that aims to manage the GPG keys used > for validation on users and Gentoo's infrastracutre servers. Gentoo Keys > will be able > to verify GPG

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 03:42:24 -0500 taii...@gmx.com wrote: > It is possible to have a reasonably secure system where the hard drive > firmware (or any other devices) can't fuck around with the stuff on > disk, although I highly doubt that the gentoo infrastructure (and > kernel.org, and all the

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig - display/list hostname with IP address

On 02/03/2017 23:31, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 03/02/2017 02:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 02/03/2017 22:57, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>> running "ifconfig" is it possible to display hostname, especially with >>> "tun" interfaces. >> >> No. >> >> ifconfig operates at layer 2. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig - display/list hostname with IP address

On 03/02/2017 02:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/03/2017 22:57, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> running "ifconfig" is it possible to display hostname, especially with >> "tun" interfaces. > > No. > > ifconfig operates at layer 2. > Hostnames is a dns/resolver concept operating at a much

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig - display/list hostname with IP address

On 03/02/2017 03:57 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > running "ifconfig" is it possible to display hostname, especially with > "tun" interfaces. > > It would be easier to recognize which network is Up or Down. > The closest thing I was able to manage is # ip -r addr show

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig - display/list hostname with IP address

On 02/03/2017 22:57, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > running "ifconfig" is it possible to display hostname, especially with > "tun" interfaces. No. ifconfig operates at layer 2. Hostnames is a dns/resolver concept operating at a much higher level. DNs relies on layer 2 so using rDNS to display

[gentoo-user] ifconfig - display/list hostname with IP address

running "ifconfig" is it possible to display hostname, especially with "tun" interfaces. It would be easier to recognize which network is Up or Down. -- Thelma

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On 170302-03:42-0500, taii...@gmx.com wrote: > On 02/28/2017 12:05 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > > On 170227-21:59-0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Miroslav Rovis > >> wrote: ... > > And finally Andrew Shavchenko pointed me to gkeys !

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

On 03/02/2017 05:07 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:44:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> 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 >>> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

Am 2017-03-02 um 13:41 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > try lshw to get that info: we had that already in the other leg of the thread doesn't work for me: # lshw -c disk *-disk:0 description: SCSI Disk physical id: 0.0.0 bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0 logical name: /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

On 02/03/17 18:03, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 2017-03-01 um 23:21 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > >> Is there actually a disk on that interface? - I have a system where one >> sdx allocated to an unused sata port with nothing attached - it returns >> similar information to yours above - check the

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

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 09:44:20 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

Am 2017-03-01 um 22:42 schrieb Daniel Frey: > I'm not sure how the sg? -> sd? mapping is supposed to work. I find it > odd that there seems to be two nodes reported for each sd? entry. > However, this could be the way the controller driver reports it to the > kernel... > >> 07:01.0 SCSI storage

Re: [gentoo-user] sg_map etc

Am 2017-03-01 um 23:21 schrieb Bill Kenworthy: > Is there actually a disk on that interface? - I have a system where one > sdx allocated to an unused sata port with nothing attached - it returns > similar information to yours above - check the other entries. I checked them, sure. to me it seems

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

On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:27:47 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > 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: > > Desktop manager is not active > > All the lxde-base pkgs

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

On Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:07:50 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > Decided to see what `emerge @preserved-rebuild would bring me. > > ran `emerge -va @preserved-rebuild' and I notice that it appears my > setting in /etc/portage/make.conf for VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox" is > being ignored... the output of

Re: [gentoo-user] SHA-1 has just been broken

On 02/28/2017 12:05 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote: On 170227-21:59-0500, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:10 PM, Miroslav Rovis wrote: Apologies for my not being able to reply sooner! On 170227-18:18+0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: And via a new private