Re: [gentoo-user] Fdisk reports new HD as 10MiB

> > lsdrv looks like lsblk, it's just that it handles afaik pretty much > everything - starts with the disk, then lists any partitions, any lvm's, > any raids, etc etc. > What does lsdrv have that lsblk is missing? lsblk is part of util-linux so its everywhere, which is handy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Massive kmail breakage with mariadb-10.4.6

> I've just tried upgrading mariadb again while watching it, and got similar > results. I did notice that an error notice came up about being unable to > store > a message received via POP3, which is my main incoming source. I can't > quote > exactly because the notice disappeared too soon. > > Bac

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI on kernel 5.2 systemd may fail to bring up the network

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 3:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > Same here, it's been reported on b.g.o and dropping the two patches > linked to there into /etc/portage/patches/sys-apps/systemd-242-r4/ and > re-emerging systemd fixed it. > Thanks Neil - that fixed both boxes. For anyone that wants to try

Re: [gentoo-user] Decent single-user/embedded-device security standard

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:30 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > When the security auditors come through and ask what standard I use for > securing my systems I'd like to have something to tell them. > > I've had a few suggestions like USGCB, etc. But looking at them they > all seem to start from the d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

> No, it's my way to run things as root, in general. I distrust su, sudo > and friends. > su is mature, well understood and the standard way of doing things. If you had run an extra term in your X session that had been su'd to root, you wouldn't be exposing a root shell at the console. Perhaps yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

> > $ dmesg | grep -i micro > > [0.622441] [drm] Loading ARUBA Microcode > > [5.763242] [drm] Loading hainan Microcode > > [6.653025] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x06001119 > > [6.657962] microcode: CPU1: patch_level=0x06001119 > > [6.658890] microcode: CPU2: patch_level=0x0600

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

grep fam /proc/cpuinfo -> 21 = 15h -> 22 = 16h

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

> Then I came across this old message regarding Piledriver CPUs: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2016/03/msg00084.html > > The post refers to model 2 of cpu family 21. Not all models in the same > family, only model 2. So I am thinking although patch files are named per > CPU > famil

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 4:06 AM Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 13 July 2019 18:42:27 BST Jack wrote: > > > > If linux-firmware is emerged with the savedconfig use flag, then only > > the firmware not deleted from the config file is left. > > Yes. I used to do this, but gave up after a while. Kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD microcode updates - where are they?!

> > Hmm ... My last line looks the same like Rich's, but different to yours: > > # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2 > Mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling > > I don't have IBPB mentioned in there at all. I'm on > gentoo-sources-4.19.57. > Are you runni

Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:28 AM jdm wrote: > Hi, > > For the last 2 months I have been getting a problem where my machine > locks and after 2 seconds goes to a black screen. The machine is then > unusable, ctrl-alt-delete F1 or sys rescue keys do not work and you > cannot remote login. > > I init

[gentoo-user] Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs?

This https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2/Configuration_variables has GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID false If true, ${GRUB_DEVICE} is passed in the root parameter on the kernel command line. If false, ${GRUB_DEVICE_UUID} is passed in the root parameter on the kernel command line when an initramfs is avai

Re: [gentoo-user] Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs?

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 8:27 PM Mick wrote: > On Friday, 19 July 2019 10:29:09 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > This > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2/Configuration_variables > > > > has > > > > GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID false If true, ${GRUB_DEVICE} is pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Using UUID for root disk in grub requires initramfs?

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 2:37 AM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2019-07-19 20:58, Adam Carter wrote: > > > I experimented found the following worked in /etc/default/grub; > > > > GRUB_DEVICE="PARTUUID=d3554d49-02" > > > > Which writes grub.cfg as; > >

Re: [gentoo-user] hw problems

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 7:47 PM wrote: > Hi, > > Since last week my gentoo installation start to randomly freeze. The > first I've detected was during huge disk usage, another was during > hibernation, etc. I think it might be related to HDD problems, but I > want to be sure. In kernel log there

Re: [gentoo-user] hw problems

> I think device [8086:9d14] which errors out is a wireless card ... ? > > Looking up that ID via https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/8086/9d14 it shows up as "Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5" The closest hit i can find otherwise is; grep '8086 9d' /usr/share/misc/pci.ids 8086 9d60 100 Serie

Re: [gentoo-user] hw problems

Also these look nasty; Jul 15 01:07:25 draken-korin kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged Jul 15 01:07:25 draken-korin kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 6: ee200040110a Jul 15 01:07:25 draken-korin kernel: mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR fef1cf80

[gentoo-user] find atime vs lsof

Some time back i moved from vmware to virtualbox, and am currently wondering if there are some old vmware files i can remove. Virtualbox uses the old vmware disk files, so first i checked via atime and lsof. Why does atime not show all the files that lsof shows were open? Steps were; 1. start vm

[gentoo-user] Re: find atime vs lsof

On Saturday, July 27, 2019, Mick wrote: > On Saturday, 27 July 2019 06:15:49 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > Some time back i moved from vmware to virtualbox, and am currently > > wondering if there are some old vmware files i can remove. Virtualbox > uses > > the old vmwar

[gentoo-user] Re: find atime vs lsof

> > Pretty sure they are the vmware disk files and are used by vbox > > Hmm ... I only have two files being accessed here on a running VBox > Windows 7 > VM. 'VBox.log' and 'MSWindows7_dyn.vdi' Was it originally a vmware vm or did you create the vm in vbox?

[gentoo-user] Re: find atime vs lsof

> It was always a VBox VM - sorry never had vmware here. However, if these > are > the two files VBox uses perhaps these are the only files it needs? Ah ok that’s different. The vbox specific files are only a few hundred kb for me because it’s using the vmware disk files.

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

> However, if I start with the .config which workd, and "make xconfig" > and select "Supported processor types" under "Processor type and > features" and then unselect "Support Intel Pprocessors" (I have a > Ryzen) and save the config, it decreases the size of .config from 169K > to under 13K, losi

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

> > First, I finally figured out this is not really important for me. > "Supported Processor types" is ONLY for 32 bits. > When i remove Processor type and features ---> [*] Supported processor vendors ---> [ ] Support AMD processors (CONFIG_CPU_SUP_AMD) it removes features relevant to 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel config strangeness

> > > # CONFIG_EDAC_AMD64_ERROR_INJECTION is not set > > Are you sure those settings are "=y" or "=m") in the other file, and not > just simply not present? Changing that one setting may only have altered > whether those other settings are explicitly included in the .config file, > and not their v

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 2:18 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a small box with a quad 64-bit Celeron and integrated graphics > During > boot, the UEFI screen is fine, but as soon as the kernel starts, it > switches > the background to a dark grey; I can't tell whether the white i

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

> > AGP is really old - no doubt this system will be using PCIE. > > Sorry - did read your post properly..

Re: [gentoo-user] Not-quite-right Intel graphics

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: > AGP is really old - no doubt this system will be using PCIE. >> >> Sorry - did read your post properly.. > DIDNT! god damn it. Back to bed for me.

[gentoo-user] distcc CFLAGS

If I understand correctly, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc#CFLAGS_and_CXXFLAGS is saying that CFLAGS should be set to the output of gcc -v -E -x c -march=native -mtune=native - < /dev/null 2>&1 | grep cc1 | perl -pe 's/^.* - //g;' Checking the output; $ gcc -v -E -x c -march=native -mtune=nati

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 6:01 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On to the next problem... > > This workstation serves as compute host to two smaller boxes on the > network. I > NFS-mount the PORTDIR of the smaller box in a chroot on this one, then do > emerging and so on to build packages which I install

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS setup

On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 7:11 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 18 August 2019 09:30:36 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > > Is the output of 'mount | grep nfs' the same on the two client machines? > > $ mount | grep nfs > nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,nosuid,

Re: [gentoo-user] empty cdrom drive is busy or mounted

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:48 AM james wrote: > On 8/16/19 12:44 PM, Jack wrote: > > ps auxf | grep systemd > > This is new turf for me. Upon issuing this command string I get:: > > # ps auxf | grep systemd > root 24947 0.0 0.0 13964 996 pts/6S+ 15:43 0:00 > | | |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem with named restarting

> > > which left me puzzled: the libressl flag docstring talks about a ssl > > flag which doesn't exist for this package. > > > > Try running "ldd /usr/sbin/named". Is openssl (ie. libssl and > > libcrypto) part of the output? > libcrypto is there along with libgnutls, but no libssl. > > FWIW, on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ffmpeg video+audio capture question

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 9:58 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 09:14:44PM +0100, Mick wrote > > > Yes, you only have one card 0. The first device (default) is the > analogue. > > > > What does 'arecord -l' show? > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices > card 0: PCH [HDA Inte

[gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

After updating the BIOS on my motherboard, the system will no longer boot. The NVME drive is still recognised in the BIOS and set to the the primary boot device. However, when i originally installed the system (and assuming I remember correctly) the boot order setting in the BIOS showed something a

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 10:56 PM Mick wrote: > The UEFI menu will present you with a list of bootable devices. The UEFI > firmware will probe connected devices to find anything which can provide > booting (from hard drives, to USB devices, to network ports) and list > them. > Among those the gru

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

Follow on question; what does efibootmgr actually modify? Is it writing to motherboard EEPROM values similar what happens when you write changes in the BIOS setup pages? If you, does mean I may have been able to fix this issue in the BIOS?

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:38 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 23 September 2019 07:33:44 CEST, Adam Carter > wrote: > >Follow on question; what does efibootmgr actually modify? Is it writing > >to > >motherboard EEPROM values similar what happens when you write changes >

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify uefi installation

> > > Looks like the setting gets cleared with every BIOS update. I assume this > > is due to shitty coding by the MB manufacturer and not a limitation of > UEFI. > > An update of the firmware flashes the UEFI EEPROM and as far as I have > experienced no settings are retained. A backward step fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg video+audio capture question

> > > Youtube is a bad example to use. There are various other HTML5 > > streaming websites, which don't work with youtube-dl. Plus I also want > > to be able to record video games and any other desktop app in general. > > What I want is to "tee" the audio output so that I can record while > > mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow UI for firefox 68

> > Ok, just for the history, it's the hwaccel flag that causes the problem. > > It could be a combination of things and not just a firefox bug, but ok. > Apart from full screen youtube which seems to run slower than before, > it's ok > > I can reproduce the same behaviour if I turn on > layers

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

> > > The Gentoo Handbook says to create a small unformatted partition at the > > beginning of the (primary?) disk, then to create a FAT-32 partition for > > /boot, then whatever other partitions are required. > > Another question answered: yes, it has to be the primary disk. I installed > a > smal

Re: [gentoo-user] UEFI data corruption? [FIXED]

> > I got the impression that I would be able to UEFI boot from multiple > different devices, eg a USB drive with UEFI as well as the hard disk. > FYI, after rebooting with the USB drive in; # efibootmgr BootCurrent: Timeout: 1 seconds BootOrder: ,0004,0001,0003,0002 Boot* Gentoo <-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng 10s pause during startup

On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:48 AM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-10-18, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > It is waiting for entropy to build. > I wonder if the kernel option General architecture-dependent options ---> GCC plugins ---> Generate some entropy during boot and runtime would help?

Re: [gentoo-user] per package parallel build

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:31 PM Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > 8-core CPU: > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build --keep-going --jobs 9 --load-average 9" > > MAKEOPTS="-j9 -l9" > > > > Works fine except when both Firefox and Thunderbird need update, in that > case emerge typically tries to build them

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage+gentoolkit blockage

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:23 PM Walter Dnes wrote: > I went 41 days without emerging (yeah, I know). Anyhow, emerge first > wants me to update portage, but I run into problems. Can I safely > unmerge gentoolkit and re-emerge it afterwards? > Its not part of @system, so should be fine. Whene

Re: [gentoo-user] app-emulation/libguestfs-1.38.6 fails to build

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:47 AM Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings, > > attempting to build libguestfs-1.38.6 failed. build.log showed a > complaint about not able to find libcrypt.so.2. So I looked for that > one. It was in /lib/xcrypt and /lib64/xcrypt, but not in /lib or /lib64. > > It was defi

Re: [gentoo-user] To all IPv6-slackers among the Gentoo community

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:53 AM Ralph Seichter wrote: > https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2019-November/001712.html > > This does not come as a surprise, of course, but I consider it a good > point in time to pause and ask oneself what each individual can do to > move further towa

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell what the current AMD microcode level is?

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 9:39 AM Daniel Frey wrote: > Well, I managed to get my hands on a Ryzen 3950x. > Nice. I figured I should be updating the microcode... so I set up early > updating but it isn't doing anything. > > dmesg is listing what the current microcode level is. The problem is, I > c

Re: [gentoo-user] How to tell what the current AMD microcode level is?

> > firmware-md5s-2019-11-12.txt:a30e5f81d37ed38faf039b75bc376197 > > /lib/firmware/amd-ucode/microcode_amd_fam17h.bin > > > > > > Drat, mine is 0x08701011. That means for some reason it's not doing an > early microcode update in the kernel. > > I'll have to figure out why it's not applying. I fo

Re: [gentoo-user] What ntp/sntp client do people use?

chrony on the "server" to sync from the Internet and systemd-timesyncd on the others to sync from the server.

[gentoo-user] kodi reports symbol lookup error

Kodi has been dead for a while; /usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/kodi/kodi-x11: undefined symbol: _ZN3fmt2v68internal14sprintf_formatIeEEPcT_RNS1_6bufferIcEENS1_13sprintf_specsE How do i go about troubleshooting this?

Re: [gentoo-user] kodi reports symbol lookup error

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 4:49 PM David Haller wrote: > First of all, decode that C++ symbol with c++filt: > > $ echo > _ZN3fmt2v68internal14sprintf_formatIeEEPcT_RNS1_6bufferIcEENS1_13sprintf_specsE > | c++filt > char* fmt::v6::internal::sprintf_format(long double, > fmt::v6::internal::buffer&, fm

Re: [gentoo-user] kodi reports symbol lookup error

> > If you're not on the live ebuild, you'll probably have to mask > >libfmt-6.1.0. I noticed I had build issues with the live ebuild and > just masked it assuming it would eventually be fixed (which it appears > to be now) > Thanks for that. I'm using ~arch. FWIW I needed >=dev-libs/libfmt-6.1.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 8:11 AM n952...@web.de wrote: > I recently reported that after rebuilding my kernel, my system doesn't > power down any more. My problems are actually much more severe. When I > bring up Firefox, my system grinds to a crawl, where it can take minutes to > echo a few charac

Re: [gentoo-user] how does the bond0 i/f get set up?

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 6:12 AM wrote: > how does the bond0 i/f get set up? > And why do I have it? > Are you using systemd? Do you have another bond interface setup on this box?

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: firefox hangs the window manager [RESOLVED](kinda)

On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 2:46 AM n952162 wrote: > I rebuilt my kernel, taking AMDGPU out and using "ATI Radeon" instead. > Now X works for me, and even my power-off issue is gone. > > I don't think it has anything to do with firefox, really, or performance, > but rather a problem with the driver a

Re: [gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

>- - xcsecurity : Build Security extension > > but I don't find anybody asking why X11 forwarding doesn't work under > gentoo. What am I missing? > > Unless I'm missing something, X11 forwarding works fine for me on Gentoo, > ssh'ing either to or from an Artix Linux box. Unfortunately, I'm o

Re: [gentoo-user] is the X11 Security extension required for xauth?

-Y still uses an .Xauthority so that isn't a surprise. > MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE security is used by both -X and -Y, which is what > this file is used for. > > The difference between -X and -Y is in providing a layer of security > so that remote clients can't play games like keyboard sniffing with > your

Re: [gentoo-user] startx does not work for AMD/ATI Radion HD 4770

Try creating an xorg.conf On Thursday, December 26, 2019, gevisz wrote: > I have installed Gentoo on my second desktop computer > with Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, AMD > Phenome II X4 945 processor, and AMD/ATI Radion > HD 4770 video card. However, currently I have only > the command line

Re: [gentoo-user] Frontier ADSL modem and IP address

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 11:08 AM Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Grant Taylor wrote: > >> On 12/30/19 1:04 PM, Dale wrote: > >>> Is there a way to find the IP for this thing? > Its using 192.168.254.254. Since fireball is in 192.168.2.0/24, its on a different subnet and therefore cant arp it. Try

[gentoo-user] python and -fno-semantic-interposition speed up

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PythonNoSemanticInterpositionSpeedup The only downside listed is "Users will no longer be able to use LD_PRELOAD to override a symbol from libpython". Does anyone know if that is an issue for gentoo?

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre-merge checks

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:48 AM Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, All. > > I would like to see all pre-merge checks prior to build a new kernel, just > to make sure all kernel configurations needed até satisfied. > > I thought on issuing an "emerge -e world" then interrupting the process at > the begu

Re: [gentoo-user] Oss/Alsa/Pulseaudio: never-ending wars (VBox)

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 8:06 PM wrote: > I can't play audio from my VBox. The host system only plays audio through > the second sound card (1). The VBox offers me OSS or the null driver. The > Alsa and pulseaudio pages say OSS is "deprecated". Is Oracle out of the > picture? I can't find t

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 9:19 PM n952162 wrote: > Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a. No problems in > /var/log/messages. > Anything from 'dmesg | grep -i swap'

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel encryption options and veracrypt

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 12:17 AM Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > As some know from another thread, I installed and started using > veracrypt. It has the option to use the kernel encryption tools but > they are not enabled on my kernel, just the default stuff. I found what > I think to be the ones vera

Re: [gentoo-user] mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 2:51 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > why can't `mail` send emails? below is some info. > > from journalctl: > > > Apr 01 03:55:17 blah smartd[11693]: mail: cannot send message: Process > exited > > with a non-zero status > > i did `equery

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

> > no, there is something else at play - I have tried adding it to > package.accept_keywords, package.provided etc. but they fail. If I use > --nodeps it wants to overwrite a number of mesa files so I am thinking > its not actually needed. > > Trying to install just zoom and its deps without

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

> > A simple read test with hdparm -t reveals: > 500 GB Crucial from 2016: Timing buffered disk reads: 1596 MB in 3.00 > seconds = 531.46 MB/sec > 128 GB Sandisk from 2014: Timing buffered disk reads: 1532 MB in 3.00 > seconds = 510.60 MB/sec > 120 GB Sandisk from 2017: Timing buffered disk reads

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SDD, what features to look for and what to avoid.

> > 3900X@2133 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 11904 2858 > 3900X@3200 nvme 512G Samsung 970 EVO PLUS 15213 3032 > > Oooo. That nvme speed is fss. Do > you happen to have the OS on that and if so, just how fast does it go from > BIOS or Grub to bootup complete? I'm almost scared

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why busybox?

> > > Why does portage insist on installing busybox for me? > > > > BusyBox is just a minimal set of utilities which would be useful for > > rescuing a system, or to be used on an embedded system with extreme > > limitations. There's not really any reason to remove this, but if you > > insist... >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Chris Stankevitz < chrisstankev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > If possible please phrase your response in a way that will make sense > to someone who was no idea what is ruby, has no desire to learn what > is ruby, and who doesn't [directly] even want ruby on h

[gentoo-user] gcc but no cc

The install for gcc 4.8.2 flaked out a bit (libgcc_s.so.1 went missing, during the file installation phase, and therefore bash invocations failed with missing library errors and i later found that libstdc++.so.6 was also missing). I have since extracted those files from gcc-4.8.2.tbz2 (because FEAT

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc but no cc

It's an identical file to gcc, but not a hard link: > > alanm@khamul ~ $ ls -al /usr/bin/cc > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10424 Nov 16 00:43 /usr/bin/cc > > alanm@khamul ~ $ ls -al /usr/bin/gcc > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10424 Nov 16 00:43 /usr/bin/gcc > > alanm@khamul ~ $ diff /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/gcc >

Re: [gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

> > I understand that sometimes a maintainer decides to add a feature that > requires some new dependancies, but why three different versions of > Ruby all of a sudden? > That's the default if you havent specified which version of ruby you want, via RUBY_TARGETS in make.conf.

[gentoo-user] systemd service file for http-replicator

http-replicator is a python script. My service file is as below, and if i run the command that it generates on the command line it works. [Unit] Description=HTTP Replicator After=network.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/http-replicator #Type=forking Type=simple PIDFile=/var/run/http-r

Re: [gentoo-user] meld ERROR - ImportError: This platform lacks a functioning sem_open

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Joseph wrote: > I just upgraded my system and "meld" as well. > I'm using "cfg-update -u" to compare files that did change utilizing meld > > When I try to compare two file as root using meld I get: > > meld /etc/ddclient/ddclient.conf /etc/ddclient/._cfg_ddc

Re: [gentoo-user] meld ERROR - ImportError: This platform lacks a functioning sem_open

> I've solved the problem by installing meld-1.6.0 from attic, 1.7.0 and > 1.8.2 don't work. > I've tried python2.7 and 3.2 make no difference. > FYI meld 1.8.2 works for me. From the use flags you can deduce that it cant use 3.2, only 2.6 or 2.7. [ebuild R] dev-util/meld-1.8.2 USE="gnome

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

> > > Is there some special configuration to make VMware Workstation on gentoo > support virtual machines with more than one NIC? > > No, it just works. I have some windows vms with multiple nics

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:04 PM, J.Marcos Sitorus wrote: > Hi Adam, > Thank you for your reply. > Are you using genkernel or configure your own kernel? > If you configure you're own kernel, what kernel option did you enable > related to Vmware/virtualization? Do you mind send me kernel config > f

Re: [gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

I cannot access my gentoo box right now, so I can't tell you exactly > how many vmnet interface I have. But from what I remember, I have two > vmnet: vmnet0 for bridge and vmnet1 for NAT. > I am creating several interface on vmware-netcfg, but those interface > not connected to physical interface

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server crashing, back to log-in screen

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Joseph wrote: > After recent upgrade I've noticed my xorg-server is crashing, and sending > me back to log-in screen on two of my computers. > Did you remember to rebuild all the xorg drivers after the xorg-server update? emerge @x11-module-rebuild

[gentoo-user] systemd weirdness with courier-authdaemond

Two things; 1. systemctl --all doesnt show the courier-authdaemond service 2. The service runs fine when i start it manually, is enabled, but is dead when started by /usr/lib/systemd/systemd How do i fix this? proxy adam # systemctl --all | grep -i courier courier-imapd.service loaded active ru

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd weirdness with courier-authdaemond

> Yes, obviously. I wanted the full output when courier-authdaemond > *doesn't* show up. Could you please post that? > Sorry - here it is. No status info proxy adam # systemctl --full --all UNIT proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount dev-disk-by\x2did-ata\x2dSamsung_SSD_840_Series_S14GNEACC65055

Re: [gentoo-user] CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be

> I checked my kernel config there is not such options: CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND > The option will become available once you have chosen whatever other options are required to make it become available. http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/USB_SUSPEND.html says: depends on: CONFIG_USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse dies after a few minutes

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 01:08:00 +0800 > Andrew Lowe wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I'm running a 64 bit KDE setup in a laptop. In the last few > > days, the mouse has become erratic and in fact dies after a bit of > > usage. > If it occurs afte

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Heartbleed' bug

> What surprises me here is OpenSSH. It's not supposed to use OpenSSL but > Debian update process suggests to restart it after updating OpenSSL to a > fixed version. Is it an overkill on their part? It might confuse admins. > > > adam@proxy ~ $ ldd /usr/sbin/sshd linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fffb068

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

> because the checksums fail so you have to manually force a manifest > rebuild first. As I have to update them anyway, is there a ways to > override the portage checksums and say install anyway? > Are you using http-replicator? Its not clever enough to know that the installer has changed since t

[gentoo-user] Missing thread.h

Hi All, x11-libs/wxGTK is failing to build, with; "wxPython-src-2.8.12.1/src/unix/threadpsx.cpp:51:24: fatal error: thread.h: No such file or directory" There's no thread.h in linux-headers, but i can find it in the kernel source.

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe flash

> > Are you using http-replicator? Its not clever enough to know that the > installer has changed since the filename doesn't change, and keeps serving > up the first one it downloads. If you remove the installer first from > replicator's --dir, it will work. > > Dammit - I should look more closely

[gentoo-user] wxGTK compilation fails "missing thread.h"

Here's what i get; /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.12.1-r1/work/wxPython-src-2.8.12.1/src/unix/threadpsx.cpp:51:24: fatal error: thread.h: No such file or directory make: *** [basedll_threadpsx.o] Error 1 Any ideas? Would thread.h be supplied by another package? linux-headers doesnt have it.

Re: [gentoo-user] wxGTK compilation fails "missing thread.h"

On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2014 15:38:42 Adam Carter wrote: > > Here's what i get; > > > /var/tmp/portage/x11-libs/wxGTK-2.8.12.1-r1/work/wxPython-src-2.8.12.1/src/u > > nix/threadpsx.cpp:51:24: fatal error: thread

[gentoo-user] bonding round-robin for scaling bandwidth for a single flow

I've been trying to replicate the results from; https://louwrentius.com/linux-network-interface-bonding-trunking-or-how-to-get-beyond-1-gbs.html To get over 1 Gig throughput for a single flow out of a 2x1GB bonded connection. Presumably its only client→server file transfers that are over 1GB, as i

[gentoo-user] motherboard BIOS vs CPU microcode

Do these largely overlap? So if your motherboard manufacturer is diligent with releasing updates and you've applied them, you generally won't expect a 'microcode updated early to new patch_level' message from dmesg?

[gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

I tried running an old version of RHEL with an old 3.x kernel in VirtualBox, however, it won't run due to my hosts Ryzen CPU so I guess I need something that does CPU emulation. Is this likely to be achievable with qemu ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

> > > I tried running an old version of RHEL with an old 3.x kernel in > > VirtualBox, however, it won't run due to my hosts Ryzen CPU so I > > guess I need something that does CPU emulation. > > > > Is this likely to be achievable with qemu ? > > Yes. Look up the release date of your kernel[1] and

Re: [gentoo-user] Running old RHEL as a VM on Ryzen

> > > Ok i see 3.10 was released 2013-06-30, so looking for a cpu released the > > previous year, say > > IvyBridge, IvyBridge-IBR Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge, 2012) > > > > and $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ? | grep -i ivy > > x86 IvyBridge (alias configured by machine type) > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Monitor complains of no HDMI signal on wake

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 7:48 AM Mike Kaliman wrote: > Hello all, > > I built a desktop that dual-boots Windows and Gentoo with rEFInd and each > OS has its own hard drive. It's running an ASUS X570 motherboard along with > an Nvidia RTX 2060 Super GPU. The GPU has 1 DisplayPort, 2 HDMI ports, and

[gentoo-user] Gnome-shell crashing

Im my logs i see entries like Traps: gnome-shell trap int3 in libglib Is the issue more likely to be in glib than gnome-shell? Should I mask off the latest version and try again or is there a better approach?

Re: [gentoo-user] Rusty problems

On Wednesday, April 28, 2021, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm having problems building rust. On systems that I setup assuming I wouldn’t need swap, I set swappiness low and add a swap file (on ssd if possible) so the bigger builds can at least finish, albeit more slowly. Generall

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome-shell crashing

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 4:12 PM Adam Carter wrote: > Im my logs i see entries like > Traps: gnome-shell trap int3 in libglib > > Is the issue more likely to be in glib than gnome-shell? Should I mask > off the latest version and try again or is there a better approach? > FW

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