Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:58 PM Kai Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real > root cause. It hangs up totally. It seems like it was running out of > memory - but why? Hopefully somebody can give me some insight. As far I > can see right now, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-05-01 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:09 PM Michael wrote: > On Friday, 30 April 2021 02:30:51 BST Adam Carter wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:58 PM Kai Peter wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean

2021-05-08 Thread Adam Carter
> x11-libs/libvdpau > selected: 1.4 >protected: none > omitted: none > I'm guessing that would be pulled in by USE +vdpau, so if you've removed it then done an emerge with -N or -U it won't be required anymore. > > x11-drivers/xf86-video-amdgpu > selected: 19.1.0 >protecte

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed > certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to certify who you > are, but at the expense of probably allowing access to your > communications by "authorised parties" (such as commercial entities > purchasing access

Re: [gentoo-user] is "scp" reliable?

2021-06-01 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 2:46 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, May 29, 2021 11:04:44 PM CEST Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 1:33 PM wrote: > > > > > > > Another mystery. > > > I copied the file to USB 1TB sandisk. > > > md5sum check OK same as my computer > > > > > > > > > Di

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 6:19 PM J. Roeleveld wrote: > All, > > I've got several packages complaining about "PYTHON_TARGETS" missing > "python3_8" You should add --changed-use to your emerge flags and clean any PYTHON_TARGETS cruft out of package.use. On ~arch the default python has just changed

Re: [gentoo-user] app-misc/ca-certificates

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:29 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 7:59 AM Adam Carter wrote: > >> > >> And another "wondering" - all the warnings about trusting self signed > >> certs seem a bit self serving. Yes, they are trying to certify

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

2021-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
> > I have no "python_target" entries anywhere under " /etc/portage/ " (apart > from > what I have to add now to get the upgrade to actually work). > > It may have been possible to use --changed-use and not add any python target entries, or, it may be that you only need a very small number of entri

[gentoo-user] gdm is running Xwayland, what about startx?

2021-06-08 Thread Adam Carter
I've noticed that my gdm system is running /usr/bin/Xwayland instead of /usr/bin/Xorg, so I infer that Gentoo devs, or upstream, are preferring it now. Can i try Xwayland with startx? pstree shows the execution paths as below. Inscrutable to me and interesting that they're so different. gdm: sys

Re: [gentoo-user] X.Org Fatal server error: AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch

2021-06-11 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 2:24 AM wrote: > The X server is crashing with an error: AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients > for VT switch > /home/fd/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log > > If you have recently updated the kernel, try 'emerge @x11-module-rebuild' Otherwise here's what i have for my .config for

Re: [gentoo-user] New install - root is mounted read-only

2021-06-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:15 PM Wols Lists wrote: > I've started tackling my new build again, and when it boots root is > read-only. Hopefully I've just missed something stupid, but how to I get > it to transition read-write? > Weird - here's my fstab and dmesg entries if you want to compare; #

[gentoo-user] postfix: /etc/postfix/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases ?

2021-07-11 Thread Adam Carter
I have an old log warning I want to clean up, and am assuming that the aliases and aliases.db file would typically be in the same directory. When the postfix service starts at boot; postfix/postalias[607]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/aliases.db: Read-only file system The location is currently configu

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix: /etc/postfix/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases ?

2021-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
> Two options: > 1/ use dafaults, i.e. /etc/mail/aliases > 2/ use a custom location but then change postfix.service to give r/w > access to the new aliases.db location > > I'd go with option #1 if you do not have a strong preference either way. > > Agreed - will go with #1 now. Thanks for your comm

[gentoo-user] wine install : pango, freetype, harfbuzz circular dependencies

2021-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
Similarly to another thread, trying to get wine to install is triggering this issue; * Error: circular dependencies: (media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1:0/0.9.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) depends on (media-libs/freetype-2.10.4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (buildtime_slot_op) (

Re: [gentoo-user] wine install : pango, freetype, harfbuzz circular dependencies

2021-07-19 Thread Adam Carter
> > You could try the opposite at the initial circular dependency. > > USE="-truetype" emerge -1 harfbuzz Different error, but i can't see a solution here either; media-libs/harfbuzz:0 (media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1:0/0.9.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="cairo glib graphite icu int

Re: [gentoo-user] irqbalance

2021-09-24 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 10:35 PM William Kenworthy wrote: > In going down the NUMA rabbit hole, I discovered "irqbalance". Does > anyone have an opinion on its usefulness? It is in portage. > > On some multicore arm systems I am using irq affiity to steer certain > irq's to faster CPU's (network

Re: [gentoo-user] time to build a new machine ?

2021-09-24 Thread Adam Carter
> > >> man mcelog > > 'man mcelog' + 'man mce' find nothing. does it need to be installed ? > Yep and the package is called mcelog. Did you check for any other messages before/after the mce errors? Do you also have lm-sensors installed? Running sensord? Genuine CPU issues seem pretty rare, so

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compress lots of tarballs

2021-09-26 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:57 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I have an external USB-3 drive with various system backups. There are 350 > .tar > files (not .tar.gz etc.), amounting to 2.5TB. I was sure I wouldn't need > to > compress them, so I didn't, but now I think I'm going to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get rid of preserved libs

2021-11-21 Thread Adam Carter
> > > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries > > I would appreciate any help to get rid of this message. > > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sam/Portage_help/Circular_dependencies

[gentoo-user] script help - removing newlines

2021-12-07 Thread Adam Carter
I have text files that are sometimes; property "something" comment "whatever" but sometimes there are newline characters in the comment field; property "something" comment "something something else a third thing" I want to replace any newlines between 'comment "' and the next '"' with s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: script help - removing newlines

2021-12-08 Thread Adam Carter
> > Hmm, maybe: > > $ awk '/^comment "[^"]*$/ { ORS=" " } /"$/ { ORS="\n" } { print }' > yourfile.txt > Yes that works (after piping the file thru tr -d '\r' first). Thanks!

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg on boot - is this behind my crashes?

2022-02-01 Thread Adam Carter
> > [ 12.260700] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-5, logical block 33554416, > async page read > [ 12.262882] Buffer I/O error on dev dm-3, logical block 33554416, > async page read > Might be worth check the status of the disks with smartctl, something like; smartctl -a /dev/sda | egrep '(^ID|Reall

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 5.15+ (thru 5.16.5)

2022-02-03 Thread Adam Carter
> > I recall reading some foobar with "simple framebuffer" cropping up and > also I > found this bug in case it helps with either of your machines: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/821406 > That's not the first time CONFIG_MPILEDRIVER=y has caused issues. I just stick to CONFIG_MBULLDOZER=y on my FX-85

Re: [gentoo-user] strange errors in http log, what can/should I do about it.

2022-02-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Monday, February 28, 2022, John Covici wrote: > I got the following error this morning during my logwatch processing > which I run daily and I would like to know if there is anything I can > should do about it? Seems to me it could be serious, if someone has > penetrated my server. > > A tot

[gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-09 Thread Adam Carter
I'm assuming that windows will modify the EFI configuration and i will need to boot, say, a minimal cd image to run efibootmgr to set it back, then add a Windows entry to the grub config. Is that correct? Anything else i should be concerned about?

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-10 Thread Adam Carter
> > iirc (and I'm about to do it again), Windows just makes itself default, > and sets boot timeout to 0. > > So no I wouldn't bother modifying grub - just set the EFI timeout to, > say, 5 secs. You then choose between Windows and grub, and then let grub > sort out the linux side for you. > Ok, wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing windows on second drive

2022-04-11 Thread Adam Carter
FYI, the windows installer added an entry to the EFI boot loader (as Boot), but left Gentoo as the active entry; # efibootmgr BootCurrent: 0003 Timeout: 15 seconds BootOrder: 0003,,0008,0007,0001,0002 Boot* Windows Boot Manager Boot0001* Hard Drive Boot0002* Network Card Boot0003* 980G

[gentoo-user] emerge 7-9% faster with python 3.11 beta 4

2022-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
FYI, i've found 'emerge -pvuUD world' is 7-9% faster on my machines when I compare 3.10 to 3.11b4. To achieve this i've added '*/* PYTHON_TARGETS: -* python3_10 python3_11' to package.use on my ~arch systems, then run 'emerge -avuUD portage'. At the end of this python-exec.conf contains; python3.1

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC whitelisting and UDP traffic.

2022-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:35 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > Ok, I asked a while ago about whitelisting MAC ranges for firewall rules, > and just so you know, adding 16 million potential MAC addresses to the > firewall… Doesn’t work well… No matter how you do it. So I had to write > a daemon to m

Re: [gentoo-user] MAC whitelisting and UDP traffic.

2022-07-12 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 4:13 PM Adam Carter wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 7:35 AM Laurence Perkins > wrote: > >> Ok, I asked a while ago about whitelisting MAC ranges for firewall rules, >> and just so you know, adding 16 million potential MAC addresses >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
> > And you'll need to always keep in mind that a VPN is a low-level > protection. It's enough for protecting yourself against spammers, script > kiddies or > similar but it can't keep you private in the face of any high-level > threats. Don't place too much trust in VPNs. > I'm not an expert, but

Re: [gentoo-user] About to have fiber internet and need VPN info

2022-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 2:41 AM Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Saturday, 16 July 2022 11:57:25 BST Dale wrote: > > > >> Basically, I can upload files as fast as I download them. Now I can > upload > >> videos or something. > > ...or run a web server! > > > > > That's way above anythi

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge 7-9% faster with python 3.11 beta 4

2022-07-20 Thread Adam Carter
> How is it compared to PyPy3? > > I didn’t find pypy any faster than 3.10.

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate... /bin/echo: write error: No such device

2022-07-27 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 7:53 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > One of the last few items on the laptop setup. I emerged hibernate > and copied over the /etc/hibernate/ directory from my desktop. When I > try to hibernate the laptop, I get... > > [thimk][root][~] hibernate > /bin/echo: write error: No s

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync local mirror question

2022-10-25 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 7:35 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > I followed https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror instructions for > doing a local rsync mirror. I ran commented the rsync mirrors line in > the client's make.conf and ran "emerge --sync". The client still > synced from a server on the i

[gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-17 Thread Adam Carter
I have three systems (all ~arch) and the emerge times have blown out on all of them across all packages. Worst example appears to be; Fri Dec 23 13:11:44 2022 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk-2.38.3-r410 merge time: 37 minutes and 8 seconds. Fri Dec 23 13:43:08 2022 >>> net-libs/webkit-gtk

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-17 Thread Adam Carter
> > Does that info help? > > My reason for asking is that i'm seeing this across multiple systems, 2 AMD, 1 Intel, who's configuration hasn't really changed and while there is some variance there has been a step change late December / early January. Another example Sat Nov 26 14:34:50 2022 >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge times blown out

2023-02-19 Thread Adam Carter
Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I've checked the frequencies of the cores and they are scaling properly: cpu MHz : 4024.653 cpu MHz : 4024.678 cpu MHz : 4024.639 cpu MHz : 4024.605 cpu MHz : 4024.643 etc Will continue to pursue these lines of thought.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge times blown out

2023-02-21 Thread Adam Carter
> > Could it be that some kind of Spectre mitigation is active? I just read > about > some massive performance problems in Kernel 5.19+ on Skylake CPUs. Stable > gentoo kernel was upgraded to 6.1 recently, which could also be affected > by > this problem. > See https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/k

[gentoo-user] Choosing --param l2-cache-size

2024-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
>From https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87444 it appears that l2-cache-size is a misnomer; "A comment in driver-i386.c says: /* Let the L3 replace the L2. This assumes inclusive caches and single threaded program for now. */ if (level3.sizekb) level2 = level3;" "Probably t

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveGUI USB Image

2024-01-03 Thread Adam Carter
> > > dd if=/path/to/iso-image of=/dev/sd? bs=4M status=progress > > > > Replace the obvious bits. > > I've tried a few values of block size over the years, but so far I haven't > noticed any difference. I haven't run any proper tests though. > I think it's just that the default blocksize is (or w

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge load again

2024-01-06 Thread Adam Carter
> > > So if it's consistently gcc that collapses to two threads, then > > something (maybe explicit settings, maybe dependencies, maybe yadda > > yadda) is telling make that only two jobs can run at the same time else > > they'll trip over each other. > > > > Could be a dev has hard-coded the "two

[gentoo-user] 'make install' hijacked by installkernel ?

2024-01-26 Thread Adam Carter
I just tried to install a new kernel using 'make install' only to find that the behaviour has changed and it appears to be running a bunch on installkernel stuff. 'make help' says install - Install kernel using (your) ~/bin/installkernel or (distribution) /sbin/installkernel or install to $(IN

[gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-27 Thread Adam Carter
To clean up csv files I use excel's find/replace to swap the commas occurring within fields for something benign. How does this magic work? Different character sets within the same file? Is it possible to do this with shell scripting?

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how does excel find commas within fields of a csv file?

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Carter
> The other thing is, look up the definition (such as there is) of CSVs. > Special characters (such as commas) can be quoted. Standard practice as > far as I can tell, is that any cell containing a comma will be > double-quoted, and the quotes are stripped on import. > Thanks - looks like quoting

Re: [gentoo-user] python 3.12 update

2024-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
In case anyone is interested, here is my approach. In package.use my starting point is */* PYTHON_TARGETS: -* python3_11 python3_12 */* PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_11 #*/* PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET: -* python3_12 Then regularly check which packages i'm using that don't have 3.12 single target yet

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

2015-12-25 Thread Adam Carter
> > grandstream.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.80) auf 00:0b:82:16:ed:9e [ether] auf > enp2s0 > grandstream.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.80) auf 00:0b:82:16:ed:9e [ether] auf > enp1s0 > spa.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.81) auf 88:75:56:07:44:c8 [ether] auf enp2s0 > spa.yagibdah.de (192.168.3.81) auf 88:75:56:07:44:c8

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

2015-12-25 Thread Adam Carter
> Even after adding the static routes and creating firewall rules to drop > all traffic from the devices to the internet, their arp entries continue > to be renewed. How is that possible? > > Your iptables rules are IP based (layer 3), so will not match arp traffic (layer 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

2015-12-25 Thread Adam Carter
> They are wrong because there is no way for network traffic from the > devices on the LAN to make it to the interface enp2s0. Or, if they do > make it there, then there is something else seriously wrong. > tcpdump -i enp2s0 arp will tell you if the arps are being generated from something on the

Re: [gentoo-user] arp question

2015-12-26 Thread Adam Carter
> Yes, I already tried that and didn't get any traffic listed. > In that case it sounds like linux has bridged them across from the other interface. Does this find anything? tcpdump -i enp2s0 net 192.168.1.0/24 If it doesn't maybe generate some layer2 broadcast traffic on enp1s0 to see if you can

[gentoo-user] Handbook instructions for UEFI

2016-01-18 Thread Adam Carter
First attempt at a GPT/UEFI install. Instructions in the Handbook say that for a UEFI system, prepare the disk as; Partition Filesystem Size Description /dev/sda1 (bootloader) 2M BIOS boot partition /dev/sda2 ext2 (or vfat) 128M Boot partition to end up with; (

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

2016-03-02 Thread Adam Carter
FYI for anyone concerned about this latest issue "DROWN" - its only a problem if SSLv2 is enabled. SSLv2 has been broken for a long time, so should be disabled. However, if it is exposed then an attacker can retrieve the private key, and in doing so will be able to also decrypt secure TLS 1.2+ sess

Re: [gentoo-user] SSLv2 is back today (gone tomorrow?)

2016-03-06 Thread Adam Carter
The relevant bug is here > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 > > If you have sslv2 enabled, your choices are clear: > > 1. high likelihood of wholesale breakage, or > 2. wait a little longer for a proper fix > > Obviously -r1 is ideal as it disables sslv2. If you have it and it > wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 4.x and (probably) event issues

2016-03-06 Thread Adam Carter
> 1. After successful boot, I've noticed, that buttons above the > touchpad[1] stopped working. Tried to debug the thing, but they do > nothing even under xev or in showkey - seems like they dead. Didn't find > anything interesting by searching the net. > Longshot (since i've had one instance in t

[gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

2016-03-09 Thread Adam Carter
I can open the program ok, but when I click on New it seg faults. Strace of its death below. I tried recompiling it and all its immediate dependencies. How do i troubleshoot this? Cheers. ioctl(10, 0xc020645e, 0x7ffc4f7bd9c0) = 0 mmap(NULL, 65536, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, 10, 0x1380a

Re: [gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Carter
> openscad is working fine here. I propose comparing our versions. Here is > mine: > > $ equery depgraph openscad > * Searching for openscad ... > > * dependency graph for media-gfx/openscad-2015.03 > `-- media-gfx/openscad-2015.03 ~amd64 >`-- media-gfx/opencsg-1.3.2-r1 (media-gfx/opencs

Re: [gentoo-user] openscad seg fault

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Carter
> > If it's build using debug options, looking with GDB where it fail would be > much more useful than a random dependency graph. > Its not at the moment, but i can try that. > > It's intriguing that it default just after doing a mmap: > > mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, > MAP_PR

Re: [gentoo-user] installing LTSP

2016-03-14 Thread Adam Carter
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:18 PM, hw wrote: > hw wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set up an ltsp server. It seems >> that one of the required packages is no longer >> available: >> >> >> >>> Downloading ' >> https://launchpad.net/ltsp/ltspfs-trunk/1.1/+download/ltspfs-1.1.tar.xz' >> --2016-0

Re: [gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

2016-03-27 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Lee wrote: > New Clevo W670RZQ Laptop with 6th Gen i7 cpu, hm170 Intel chipset and on- > board graphics. > > Will the latest stable kernel and firmware packages work with it? Will the > most recent minimal install disc be adequate for my needs, or should I go > wi

Re: [gentoo-user] New Laptop Will Be Here in Few Days

2016-03-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Lee wrote: > Thanks! > FWIW i also used ~amd64 gcc, and; CFLAGS="-march=broadwell -O2 -pipe" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"

Re: [gentoo-user] to anyone and everyone

2016-04-09 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 2:54 PM, Alan Grimes wrote: > Corsair power supplies suck nuts. > > Here's proof: > > > Testing a 12V rail, scope set to 100mv/horizontal line relative to how > you would normally look at a scope. > Is your sample size=1? If so, then the evidence does not support the concl

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: NVMe drive and grub

2016-04-11 Thread Adam Carter
> The problem was sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r9, which UEFI never ran. > > The fix was to get rid of grub altogether and instead use > sys-boot/gummiboot. > Not only was it fully functional, it was a welcome relief not to have to > grapple with grub's baroque complexity and to be able to return to th

Re: [gentoo-user] Open-Channel SSD target support option

2016-04-25 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Jacques Montier wrote: > Hello all, > > In the new stable kernel configuration (4.4.6-gentoo-sources) there is the > option : > > *Open-Channel SSD target support (NVM) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?* > > *CONFIG_NVM:* > Unless you have a NVMe motherboard and disk (which are qu

[gentoo-user] Auto-keyword to get perl 5.22?

2016-05-08 Thread Adam Carter
If i keyword perl to get 5.22, emerge reports the issues below. Is there any way to encourage emerge to offer me some auto keywording config, or are some of the modules just not ready for 5.22 yet? Thanks [ebuild R] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo USE="berkdb gdbm -debug -doc -ithreads

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blank screen when trying to start gdm

2016-05-16 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 5:43 AM, wrote: > Hi. Since about the end of March, I have been unable to use gnome and > even gdm. I am using the gnome overlay and I am using unstable gentoo > and nvidia drivers. I get a blank screen when I start gdm, orca just > comes up, but there is nothing on th

[gentoo-user] How to try custom-optimization in firefox

2016-06-13 Thread Adam Carter
I have enabled this use flag and the output of emerge --info shows it has been recognised in USE but not in FCFLAGs/CFLAGs; grep USE.*custom ff* ffafter-cust-opt.txt:USE="custom-optimization dbus gmp-autoupdate gtk2 hwaccel jemalloc3 jit pulseaudio -bindist -custom-cflags -debug -hardened (-neon)

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2016-06-13 Thread Adam Carter
Another option is to suspend the foreground process (ctrl-Z) then you can background it by typing bg, which will resume running and put it in the background. # sleep 10 ^Z [1]+ Stopped sleep 10 m # bg [1]+ sleep 10 & #

Re: [gentoo-user] How to try custom-optimization in firefox

2016-06-14 Thread Adam Carter
You missed another flag: USE="custom-cflags". You should really > read USE flag descriptions (/usr/portage/use.{,local.}desc): > > custom-cflags - Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported) > www-client/firefox:custom-optimization - Fine-tune custom compiler > optimizations (-Os, -O0, -O1, -O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and VPN, plus security in generla

2016-06-14 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 8:57 AM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran up on a video website that had some info on it. I found it > interesting and was curious about what it said and another question I > been wondering about. It mentioned using a VPN so that the NSA, my ISP > and others couldn't "see"

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

2016-07-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > Just top be clear: I'm pretty sure that's not _extracting_ the audio, but > _transcoding_ it. > > The midentify output in my original post shows the audio to be AAC. Extraction is; ffmpeg -i "input file.mp4" -acodec copy "output file.aac" Man page; " Stream copy Stream copy is a mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Keep alive within SSH session

2016-07-17 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Mick wrote: > I am not sure of the correct approach to achieve a prolonged remote > debugging > session through SSH and avoid the SSH session timing out. > > This is what I try to achieve: > > I login into a router with SSH from my PC. Then I can run certain > c

[gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

2016-07-18 Thread Adam Carter
I'm trying to troubleshoot a newly setup nfs server, which, sometimes has a 30 second pause (tcpdump shows its server waiting). # time touch /usr/portage/distfiles/testfile real0m30.088s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s I cant see anything in the nfs server debugging so i want to strace nfs

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

2016-07-20 Thread Adam Carter
Are the nfsd versions that you're setting being respected? You can > check with "rpcinfo -s" or "cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions". > Yep; # cat /proc/fs/nfsd/versions -2 +3 +4 +4.1 +4.2 > You can change the number of threads on the fly with "echo 1 > > /proc/fs/nfsd/threads". > That works too, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing CPU options in make menuconfig

2016-07-20 Thread Adam Carter
The experimental use flag turns on the other arch's in gentoo-sources. Perhaps that will help identify which is the relevant patch? On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 07/20/2016 07:38 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

2016-07-22 Thread Adam Carter
> >> I don't use systemd on Gentoo but for the nfs-utils upstream-shipped > >> systemd units that I think that Gentoo's using, you have to re-run > >> nfs-config.service - or run the script that it calls - in order to > >> update the "/run/sysconfig/nfs-utils" environment file that's sourced > >> b

Re: [gentoo-user] nfsv4 issues

2016-07-24 Thread Adam Carter
I've added the directory, and after restarting syslog now has new entries; > kernel: [912267.948883] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 > state recovery directory > kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery > directory > > I will test shortly and report

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe

2016-08-17 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I'm putting together a new desktop using a Samsung SM951 NVMe drive. I > booted sysrescd, partitioned the drive and ran > > mkfs.btrfs /dev/nvme0n1p3 > mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/custom > > df -T, mount and findmnt all show this is mounted as

Re: [gentoo-user] XOrg / XRanR segfault starting X

2016-08-17 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Dave Trombley wrote: > Hi all! > >New to Gentoo, just followed the handbook install for amd64 and then > for XOrg. > > I'm seeing the server segfault on 'startx'. Here is the console > output (and I've attached the logfile). > > X.Org X Server 1.17.4

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

2016-09-09 Thread Adam Carter
> Device Drivers ---> > Graphics support ---> > <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > ---> > --- Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI support) > [*] Enable legacy fbdev support for your modesetting driver > ...and also... >

Re: [gentoo-user] New install, a few problems (or not?)

2016-09-10 Thread Adam Carter
> > ?!?! I've never had evdev installed. Why now? Mouse and keyboard > work OK. > I thought evdev was the contemporary way of doing things (its in the gentoo guides), but after a bit of reading it seems more complicated than that. Ignore my post.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2016-09-17 Thread Adam Carter
It doesn't look like just vim - it looks like exiftool, graphite2, > cups-filters, gvim, and imagemagick all are blocking. > > I'd guess that these packages need a version bump or you need to unmask > one of the newer builds (most likely they haven't been stabilized yet.) > Agree - my amd64 syste

Re: [gentoo-user] Webkit-gtk yelp and dependencies

2016-10-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 2:51 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > this morning it happens again: net-libs/webkit-gtk was > updated. > For me it means: For a longer time as convenient full > load on the all cores of the CPU of my GENTOO box, > higher CPU temperatures as usual and laggy desktop. > You shouldn't ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Webkit-gtk yelp and dependencies

2016-10-03 Thread Adam Carter
...my PC is seven year old... The changes were software (kernel) based, so would apply to any hardware. Its about contention rather than outright performance.

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

2016-10-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 29/10/16 14:53, Daniel Campbell wrote: > >> On 10/28/2016 09:56 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> Anyone seeing this again? I've just sync'd to two servers in >>> Australia, and then, for the hell of it, one in Canada and am get

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible heads up: Digest verification failed

2016-10-29 Thread Adam Carter
Checked rsync11.us.gentoo.org and its the same as rsync.au.gentoo.org/ftp.cc.swin.edu.au.

[gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

2016-10-31 Thread Adam Carter
The farmboy0 and vulcan overlays are looking for amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-315407.tar.xz but i can only find the current driver, amdgpu-pro-16.40-348864.tar.xz on amd's site. Is the older file still available anywhere?

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

2016-10-31 Thread Adam Carter
> > It's actually still available from AMD. Maybe not actually linked. > > Using google, I found a forum-post on ubuntu mentioning it and the > following > worked for me: > > wget https://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-315407.tar.xz > Yes i already tried that, but it fails for me. C

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

2016-10-31 Thread Adam Carter
> > I've uploaded it for your convenience. > > > > https://keybase.pub/agates/amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-306809.tar.xz > > > > Oops, it looks like mine is slightly older than what you're looking for. > Hmm. > > There's ebuilds for that version too - i'll try it if i cant get the later file. Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

2016-11-01 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On 11/01/2016 12:38 AM, Alecks Gates wrote: > > I've uploaded it for your convenience. > > > > https://keybase.pub/agates/amdgpu-pro_16.30.3-306809.tar.xz > > > Alecks - what kernel version are you using with this?

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy of older amdgpu-pro

2016-11-01 Thread Adam Carter
I’ve just made an arch chroot and downloaded the files of > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/amdgpu-pro/ (makepkg -o after cloning > the git) > > I obtain this : > https://bulbizarre.swordarmor.fr/garbage/amdgpu-pro-installer/ > The file is there - thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved rebuild failure with python

2016-12-06 Thread Adam Carter
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:37 PM, allan gottlieb wrote: > I can't complete an emerge @preserved-rebuild due to the lack of > python3.3. > > However, I read the news article and have set the python3 interpreter to > python3.4 > >allan ~ # eselect python list --python3 >Available Python 3 int

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved rebuild failure with python

2016-12-06 Thread Adam Carter
Also, what's your $PYTHON_TARGETS ?

Re: [gentoo-user] OSS4

2020-04-13 Thread Adam Carter
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 4:48 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 6:52 PM Michael wrote: > > > > > > ## arecord -l > > > List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices > > > card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: Generic Analog [Generic Analog] > > > Subdevices: 1/1 > > > Subdevice

[gentoo-user] Warning: libuv-1.36.0 breaks bind

2020-04-15 Thread Adam Carter
For me at least. Going back to 1.35 makes bind work again. Error looks like Apr 16 15:48:51 proxy named[944]: netmgr.c:1000: REQUIRE(worker->recvbuf_inuse) failed, back trace Apr 16 15:48:51 proxy named[944]: #0 0x61943fe4dc20 in ?? Apr 16 15:48:51 proxy named[944]: #1 0x70cde3c7cf4c in ?? Apr 16

[gentoo-user] /proc/meminfo vs lshw -c memory

2020-04-17 Thread Adam Carter
The BIOS and lshw -c memory shows 2x8Gig but the OS (/proc/meminfo) only shows 8Gig. I've re-seated the RAM, tried different slots, booted from CD, but no change. Last time i looked the OS showed 16Gig. Is there anything else i can try or is it new RAM time?

Re: [gentoo-user] /proc/meminfo vs lshw -c memory

2020-04-18 Thread Adam Carter
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 11:14 AM madscientistatlarge < madscientistatla...@protonmail.com> wrote: > If the bios sees it, an lshw sees it it's not the ram, I seriously doubt > new ram would help. I've seen a failing power supply make ram look flaky > before, possibly the drive activity during boot

Re: [gentoo-user] transparent compression? (e.g. device mapper for compression)

2020-04-29 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 1:24 PM Caveman Al Toraboran < toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote: > hi - any nice way to have compression at the file > system level, without using zfs? perhaps some > kind of device mapper that compresses data? > > i find file system compression to speed up > read/wri

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Radeon R7 370 (Pitcairn) causing the bootup to hang

2020-05-04 Thread Adam Carter
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 10:21 AM Ashley Dixon wrote: > Hi gentoo-user, > > I'm attempting to configure a mid-range video card: the Radeon R7 370. > Running > on the Pitcairn chipset and a member of the Southern Islands family, > I am > surprised at the complexity of setting up the Radeon dr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-03 Thread Adam Carter
On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 2:24 AM wrote: > When I try to boot I'm getting an error: > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init= > option to kernel." > > I am running very low on disk space, I think. > I've tried to boot strap the system and remove some files but boot s

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found.

2020-06-05 Thread Adam Carter
> > On my boxes with swap files, kernel 5.7.0 barfs; > > # file /swapfile > /swapfile: Linux/i386 swap file (new style), version 1 (4K pages), size > 2097151 pages, no label > # swapon -a > swapon: /swapfile: swapon failed: Invalid argument > > I havent looked into it yet as they're rarely used at

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