Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Dale > wrote: > > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting > spontaneously. > > It's doing this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Adam Carter
How often does the linux-firmware package update? On a schedule or as > needed? > There's a version bump request bug in for these and new AMDGPU firmware. Hopefully it will get processed quickly. https://bugs.gentoo.org/656136

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 8:35 AM, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > > > I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. > > It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when > > I'm in X, the system

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. > It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when > I'm in X, the system usually reboots, when I'm on a tty, it hangs. > > This phenomenon has, up till now,

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 20 May 2018 21:54:32 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. > It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when > I'm in X, the system usually reboots, when I'm on a tty, it hangs. >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread mad.scientist.at.large
First suspect the power line, brief surges/sags can do that( do you have access to a ups?).    Is your' power supply near it's limits?  That can make power supplies rather sensitive.  Could it be static electricity?  You can actually make a really good antistatic spray cheaply for any

[gentoo-user] [Maybe OT]: Instability of system

2018-05-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo. I'm having problems with my machine hanging or rebooting spontaneously. It's doing this, perhaps, every three or four weeks. I think that when I'm in X, the system usually reboots, when I'm on a tty, it hangs. This phenomenon has, up till now, been just below the level at which

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:16 PM Volker Armin Hemmann < volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > oh come on. Spectre on AMD isn't even much of a problem. Why the panic? What do release notes have to do with Spectre, and how is wanting them a "panic?" -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
oh come on. Spectre on AMD isn't even much of a problem. Why the panic? Also... be prepared for a lot of trouble with intel cpu's soon... 2018-05-20 15:07 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman : > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: > > >> As far as I

[gentoo-user] udev and ignoring rules

2018-05-20 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I found a strange problem with udev and, in this case, pcscd. Installed versions: [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/pcsc-lite-1.8.22:0 [IP-] [ ] sys-fs/eudev-3.2.5:0 [IP-] [ ] virtual/udev-217:0 - From /lib/udev/rules.d/99-pcscd-hotplug.rules,

[gentoo-user] Gentoo ansible role

2018-05-20 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Hi Folks, after so many questions, I want to provide you with an ansible role that fixes some things that I found on Gentoo. I hope it is of use for anyone out there. I am sure that I do not always see the full picture. So, if you have some improvements/fixes, just mail me. All comments are

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 4:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: >> As far as I can tell there is no official AMD microcode update page, or any >> kind of official release notes. I'm not sure where linux-firmware actually >> gets the microcode files from (I'm sure they wouldn't load if

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Corbin Bird
On 05/20/2018 03:59 AM, Adam Carter wrote: > > > This has indeed been pretty frustrating. > > As far as I can tell there is no official AMD microcode update > page, or any > kind of official release notes.  I'm not sure where linux-firmware > actually > gets the microcode

Re: [gentoo-user] Where are the AMD microcode updates for spectre?

2018-05-20 Thread Adam Carter
> > > This has indeed been pretty frustrating. > > As far as I can tell there is no official AMD microcode update page, or any > kind of official release notes. I'm not sure where linux-firmware actually > gets the microcode files from (I'm sure they wouldn't load if they weren't > genuine

[gentoo-user] Annoying mapping of some keys

2018-05-20 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, I have an annoying problem on gentoo that I work around currently by using zkbd from zsh. Some keys on Gentoo, on xterm, console and via ssh from remote host, map to wrong keycodes. Namely and most important, that are the keys for begin, end