[gentoo-user] Does systemd work with mdadm?

OK, I decided I'm going to try systemd to see what all the hubbub is about. I know there are people on here that use it so I'm hoping someone's can alleviate my concerns on it with mdadm. I use an IMSM container (Intel fakeraid) as I dual boot with Windows. This has happily worked for some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Does systemd work with mdadm?

On 11/29/2014 12:19 AM, Mark Pariente wrote: mdadm works perfectly fine with systemd. I am running a 4-disk RAID-10 configuration and it gets assembled properly by systemd. I have the ARRAY ... definition in /etc/mdadm.conf and the /dev/mdXXX mount point in /etc/fstab and AFAICT that's all

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian forked, because of systemd brouhaha

On 11/30/2014 05:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: systemd isn't monolithic so I can only assume you are referring to the Linux kernel here :) systemd most certainly is monolithic as well as modular. You can't run journald without systemd and you most certainly can't replace journald with a third

Re: [gentoo-user] apcupsd.powerfail script

On 12/11/2014 03:09 PM, Joseph wrote: I'm running apcupsd, I've added: apcupsd and apcupsd.powerfail scripts to rc level default and shutdown. On a slave machine do I run only apcupsd only or I need to add: apcupsd.powerfail to shutdown level as well? apcupsd.powerfail kills power to the

Re: [gentoo-user] New PC, new boot concepts

On 12/19/2014 07:22 AM, Mick wrote: I'll be taking my time to google, read and make appropriate selections, so please bear with me while I start relevant threads as necessary to complement my sparse knowledge in these topics. Starting from the top, with this thread I am trying to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam on Gentoo Logitech C270

On 12/21/2014 06:49 PM, Joseph wrote: When I try to run: guvcview video device: /dev/video0 ERROR opening V4L2 interface for /dev/video0 unable to detect video devices on your system (0) ERROR opening V4L interface: Permission denied It can't open the device. You probably aren't in the

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE setting sound input from USB, playback from motherboard chip.

On 12/22/2014 09:56 AM, Joseph wrote: On 12/22/14 07:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com [14-12-22 07:16]: On 12/22/14 06:21, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com [14-12-22 06:18]: How to configure alsamixer and or XFCE4 to get playback from my

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing openrc after installing systemd

On 12/26/2014 07:10 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Just curious; is this even possible? `emerge --depclean --ask --verbose sys-apps/openrc` gives: Calculating dependencies... done! sys-apps/openrc-0.12.4 pulled in by: @system requires sys-apps/openrc

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

On 12/28/2014 07:16 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2014 11:54:11 Mick wrote: I'm not sure I understand - what shortcuts cause problems with Activities? I have removed the icon on a KDE desktop here and I don't think users have noticed any problem with Activities; but they

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Activities

On 12/29/2014 12:57 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: How did you remove the icon? I haven't found a way yet. I did it by the following (I think, anyway): 1. Open the Panel toolbox. (Click the cashew-looking thing to the right of the clock) That thing's so discreet I'd hardly noticed it. 2.

[gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. I can't seem to copy much anything to them. It appears to copy and then hangs, then I get: [ 6841.490036] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci-pci [ 6848.540029] usb 2-6: reset high-speed USB device number 16 using

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

On 02/02/2015 11:57 PM, bitlord wrote: On Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:22:17 -0800 Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote: I've been having a strange issue with my USB flash drives. I can't seem to copy much anything to them. It appears to copy and then hangs, then I get: [ 6841.490036] usb 2-6

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with USB memory sticks

On 02/02/2015 11:57 PM, bitlord wrote: Not an expert, but check contacts (if ports are not used for a long time check if there is dust in them), if you use extension cable or a hub, try without it (power issues), or try different port (does it happen on all ports?) Tried several ports,

Re: [gentoo-user] Get off my lawn?

On 01/16/2015 03:25 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: http://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/ I find it amusing that in the second question he laments on how Upstart was a pain in the ass to deal with because Canonical made it difficult to contribute code. I recall not too long ago

Re: [gentoo-user] SMART drive test results, 2.0 for same drive as before.

On 01/20/2015 09:58 AM, Dale wrote: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 116 099 006Pre-fail Always - 114620384 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 053 051 036Pre-fail Always - 62752 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 088 088 000Old_age

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about flakey RAM

On 01/27/2015 03:28 PM, walt wrote: My question is why didn't memtest86+ find any errors? Could it be that the first RAM I bought was actually okay but this machine didn't like it for some reason? Both were DDR3/1333MHz, just from different manufacturers. If the timing/voltage is set wrong

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating dependencies...: Any way to make it faster?

On 01/23/2015 08:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for my embedded systems I use gentoo. Their harddisks are simple microSDcards. When updateing or emerging especially the Calculation dependencies... is a step which needs a lot of patience of the user (me ;). I have a QX9650 and it

[gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

Hey all, I've now converted two systems to systemd and so far haven't had too much issues with systemd itself, other than me constantly forgetting commands. Is there a nice table or chart somewhere that lists openrc commands with equivalent systemd commands? That would really help me from

Re: [gentoo-user] getting blocks for system and world update not resolved

On 03/17/2015 09:11 PM, Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I have problems getting these blocks at a system update solved... I executed: emerge --backtrack=30 -fuDN @system @world Any ideas ?! ... ... ... [blocks B ] perl-core/ExtUtils-Install-1.670.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

On 03/17/2015 06:15 PM, walt wrote: On 03/17/2015 05:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote: Mozilla installs a privileged service that auto updates its software. Interesting. I didn't know about 'privileged services' in Windows. I hope M$ grants these 'privileges' carefully. You mean the user. Any app

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Anyone else see the same with firefox-36? I haven't tried, honestly. But I have had problems with Firefox not including

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?

On 03/18/2015 04:41 PM, walt wrote: On 03/17/2015 04:49 PM, walt wrote: I get a certificate verification error when visiting https://www.att.com using firefox-36.0, but not when using chrome-41.0.2272.76. Thanks to all who replied. I'm surprised by the variety of different results you

[gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

Hi list, In one of my earlier posts I mentioned I wasn't having any issues with systemd. Well, I guess I lied, although I didn't know about it at the time. My laptop works fine, no issues. My desktop, however, has an issue, but only while rebooting. I use mdadm to access my IMSM raid, and

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

On 03/21/2015 10:27 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: So why does `systemctl reboot` not want to work? I'm a little confused. What kind of initramfs are you using? Supposedly, the only difference between poweroff and reboot is that the former turns off the machine and reboot does a reset. In

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

On 03/17/2015 06:56 AM, Bob Wya wrote: I've not seen any that are OpenRC specific... But this one is pretty decent for SysVInit vs. systemd... http://linoxide.com/linux-command/systemd-vs-sysvinit-cheatsheet/ Yeah I found one similar to that, but located elsewhere. Maybe if I have some time

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange network behaviour: NIC goes down, DHCP lease renewal fails (WORKED AROUND)

On 03/06/2015 11:57 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: I wasn't aware you had e1000e hardware - those are about as reliable as they come. I've used many of them and never had the slightest trouble at all. By all means study up on firmware and driver options - if you don;t know much about that area it's

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

On 03/17/2015 10:20 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: The cheat sheets are useful for reference, but I'd strongly encourage anybody using systemd to get a decent understanding of the fundamentals. Oh, certainly - but going in completely blind and being stuck for 15 minutes trying to do a simple task

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

On 03/21/2015 02:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Could you run this immediately after booting: systemd-delta Just to check that the unit files you are using are not being overridden by something. OK, I've confirmed the poweroff target works fine but the reboot and shutdown targets

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

On 03/31/2015 07:05 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Thanks for doing this, I think it will help all the people switching to systemd from OpenRC in Gentoo. However, I think the zap command is a little misleading, even with the note stating that is no exactly the same. Duly noted, I've removed

Re: [gentoo-user] OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

On 03/21/2015 02:46 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: They are; basically everything nowadays is systemd aware. Even OpenRC can now use some of its configurations. Could you run this immediately after booting: systemd-delta I've finally gotten around to doing this:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo announces total website makeover :-)

On 04/01/2015 12:18 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: Nice. The load time is really fast :) Send the floppies to me. Can't wait to get installing ;) Ditto! I can finally dust off my 5.25 drive and use it for something! ;-) Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

On 04/01/2015 02:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: Nice! Apart from the zap thing that Canek has already covered, I think it could be useful. Could you add a link to it to the main systemd page. I've added it to the See Also section at the end of the Systemd page. I didn't know where else to put it.

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

On 04/01/2015 02:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 18:53:39 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: Anyway, I've finally gotten around to putting together a short cheatsheet @ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet . Nice! Apart from the zap thing that Canek has already

Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

On 04/01/2015 07:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? This is version 31.5.3, with just AdBlock Plus and YesScript added. I have remerged it and saw no difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] No 'libs' in world file?

On 03/03/2015 10:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: And a lib is not necessarily always a direct dependancy. E.g. my HDHomerun OTA TV tuner requires the media-libs/libhdhomerun ebuild to be explicitly installed. Wait, really? I've had mine since 2010 and I've never had that package installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repos.conf migration lost overlay priority

On 02/22/2015 03:26 AM, lee wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com writes: On a side note, someone should inform the portage devs that higher priorities should equal lower numbers. Don't do it the opposite way to the rest of the world, please :-P Why should low mean high? The rest of

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc implementation failure

On 02/20/2015 05:19 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Looks like you are using pump mode. Disable it and use normal distcc. Yes, I read about how it works and enabled it. Of course I didn't think of that when these errors happened. I'll try disabling that shortly. Yes, there is. Create a file

[gentoo-user] distcc implementation failure

Well, I decided to try distcc once again and set up a few machine to do so. I have set the -march directive on each machine to its own (and not native), and set up the accesses. It seems to work on most packages. However, I've found that there's some packages that just don't work:

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc implementation failure

On 02/20/2015 05:19 PM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: Looks like you are using pump mode. Disable it and use normal distcc. This was the cause. Just an update. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild python endless loop

On 03/23/2015 05:12 PM, Dale wrote: Is it me or does the search function at fgo pretty much stink? I find a lot of times I type in something and where it should show what I searched for, it is blank which means it kicked all my search terms out. Surely it ain't just me. o_O It's not just

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

On 04/20/2015 06:14 PM, Joseph wrote: I don't think grub is asking for it. Not grub specifically, but grub is probably built with ncurses support and ncurses needs it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] abi_x86_32 FLAG

On 04/20/2015 04:27 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: Better yet, upgrade to grub:2 already. I only use grub2 on machines with EFI, and in my house that's only two... I can't stand how it tries to add things automatically. It actually got so annoying that I created a manual boot entry that is symlinked

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

On 04/25/2015 09:07 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, A novice asks the master Emerge: Is there Zen also in every upgrade, which will serve to Gentoo? Master Emerge moved a little bit and spoke: WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

On 04/26/2015 12:38 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: There is nothing to get out of, and there is no circular dep. I didn't mean a true circular dep, more like you want this and it wants that, repeat. :-) Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive storage questions

On 04/27/2015 12:41 AM, Dale wrote: What do you guys, gals too, think about this? Just add a drive or buy a larger drive and move things over? Or is this a six of one and half dozen of the other thing? I just went through this myself, and I found a NAS with four drives in it. I actually got

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

On 05/17/2015 02:54 PM, Mick wrote: Chromium now selects the whole URL when you click in the address bar. I'm not sure when it started doing this but it was quite recently. This is not a problem at all, because this address bar auto-highlighting in Chromium does not take over the system

Re: [gentoo-user] howto make github look nice

On 05/18/2015 05:47 PM, James wrote: Howdy, One of the things I find ugly about github is the first appearance of the main (base) page of a given project. One thing I really like about sourceforge is how some projects look much more professional. I do not need (nor want) a lecture on why

Re: [gentoo-user] ffmpeg command not found

On 04/12/2015 04:08 PM, Dale wrote: There's been a discussion on the default switching back to ffmpeg on -dev too. I think I read that correctly. Yeah, I read that too - apparently they are going to a saner default, i.e. USE=-libav. Darnit, I just read this within the last week or so. Ah,

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc-systemd command comparison

On 04/01/2015 09:26 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:19:18 -0700, Daniel Frey wrote: I've added it to the See Also section at the end of the Systemd page. I didn't know where else to put it. That's where I was thinking of. It's not there right now, are edits moderated? I

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

On 06/08/2015 11:56 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I browsed their udev rules and found some rules pointing in that direction but none specifically matching the PCI ID of my keyboard and the wildcards ... I am not sure. But they seem to do it specifically, yes - # cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

So many replies! On 06/08/2015 11:22 AM, Mick wrote: On Monday 08 Jun 2015 13:03:53 James wrote: Franz Fellner alpine.art.de at gmail.com writes: James wrote: There may be a generic processor fan you can mount/glue onto the chip for cooling. Make sure all other fans are running. Blow out the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

On 06/08/2015 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: are you sure it is overheating and not operating within spec? A lot of laptops have 'hot spots'. I've had this laptop for a really long time, and it's getting hot where I normally rest my right wrist while typing. I would have noticed

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/07/2015 10:42 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: So there is something else here that also plays a role Same here. Hi all, I may have a solution for you. I noticed this behaviour some time back, except I had two workstations - one worked, and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

On 06/07/2015 10:30 AM, Paul Klos wrote: Op zondag 7 juni 2015 10:17:24 schreef Daniel Frey: On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan Interesting, I have indeed still enabled

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying/Moving a file in KDE - is the preview missing

On 06/07/2015 10:31 AM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 07 Jun 2015 18:17:24 Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/07/2015 08:10 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Same here. Can't seem to reply to myself, just posting back the nepomuk USE-flag did indeed fix it. Dan Did you set it globally or only for some package, e.g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

On 06/07/2015 09:05 PM, James wrote: Last, I think some folks make a cooling pad for laptops. If you have agressive compile options (like mine MAKEOPTS=-j9 -l9) in your make.conf, slow them way down (-j1) etc. I picked up one of these in the store today:

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual OS clock issues

On 06/05/2015 03:29 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: The main problem is that Windows will change the local time twice a year on DST zones, aside from NTP how can Linux tell if the time is adjusted? Windows can be set to not do DST updates, I've set this option in the time control panel for both

Re: [gentoo-user] some keyboard lag

On 06/08/2015 05:32 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2015-06-08 um 14:22 schrieb Andrew Lowe: Any chance this is a Logitech K520r wireless keyboard? I have one of these and it at times goes to sleep for several seconds. Logitech know about the problem but refuse to do anything. A

[gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

Hi all, Not really Gentoo-related (well except the overheating part - lots of compiling ;-) ) I have a very old laptop. It is an LG F1 laptop (circa 2005/2006 I believe) about nine years old. This has a Core2 1.6GHz chip and 4GB RAM, even though it only sees 3GB (that should tell you it's pretty

[gentoo-user] Update: OK, so not everything works properly with systemd

Regarding my other thread started some time ago, I finally fixed it after a lot of experimentation. I had to do several things to make mdadm work properly with dracut/systemd: 1. I had to add rd.auto=1 to kernel options in grub; 2. Upgraded to mdadm-3.3.2-r1; 3. Installed dracut-041; 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's no swipe capability. I've read someone

Re: [gentoo-user] After Updates System hang on system waits for uevents to be processed

On 06/18/2015 02:53 AM, Marko Weber | 8000 wrote: i found 2 mails here in list, but they talk about other problems there. (nvidia cards etc). any ideas how to solve this? server starts up after reboot, then it hangs on waiting for uevents to be prcocessed. DEVTMPFS is set YES in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

On 06/07/2015 09:05 PM, James wrote: HAVIT® HV-F2056 15.6-17 Laptop Cooler - Three Quiet 110mm Fans at 1,000RPM, Last, I think some folks make a cooling pad for laptops. If you have agressive compile options (like mine MAKEOPTS=-j9 -l9) in your make.conf, slow them way down (-j1) etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Southbridge chip on laptop overheating

On 06/12/2015 12:32 AM, Marc Joliet wrote: With a Fujitsu Lifebook A530 that I lent from the University I had the problem that it can overheat and actually shut down. However, I semi-recently discovered thermald, which has (in its default configuration state) successfully kept it from

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation cd vs system rescue cd

On 07/01/2015 08:17 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My new laptop should arrive this month. It will presumably support UEFI, which I have never used before. I have two questions. 1. The gentoo handbook favors using the minimal installation CD. I downloaded the iso, verified it's integrity,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Printer margins

On 07/06/2015 06:40 PM, walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:41:07 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: walt wrote: On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 16:01:44 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got around to ordering some ink cartridges. Now I want to do some printing. Thing

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

On 05/22/2015 10:21 AM, Dale wrote: I have always copied mine over manually too. I keep quite a few spares laying around, just in case. I had one that got corrupted a long time ago. After I booted another kernel and looked at the one I was trying to boot, it was only a few kilo bytes

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

On 05/22/2015 02:19 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 22/05/2015 10:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2015 02:53:17 -0500, Dale wrote: So I'm the 3rd one in row to state that I haven't had any deleterious effects that I noticed. Make that 4. /raises hand: 5 /raises hand too

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question for users of the Firefox browser

On 05/19/2015 09:35 AM, »Q« wrote: ctrl+k does the same thing for the search box. (And if the search box is hidden in your UI, ctrl+k opens about:home and puts the carat in its search box.) For browsers a lot of things are mousey, but for inherently type-y things, I really like the

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

On 07/29/2015 08:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 29.07.2015 um 16:52 schrieb Daniel Frey: On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming completely unacessible. dmesg errors? Filled with /dev/sda

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

On 07/29/2015 04:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: are you sure? Asus boards usually support ECC (at least their AMD boards do) and many Gigabyte boards support ECC without telling about it (gigabyte user forums can usually answer that). Hmm, I went and looked some more into this, but all I

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

On 07/28/2015 12:04 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: you know - this does not sound like ssd failure. Most SSDs bomb out by just becoming completely unacessible. dmesg errors? Filled with /dev/sda errors when it failed. are you using ecc ram? Nope. if not - maybe, just maybe it is

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

On 08/04/2015 11:30 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): and faster. A fresh install will take a couple hours. An upgrade will take somewhere between a couple days and a couple weeks. Seriously, more than a day? Oh sure, it's possible. In late 2013

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Very recent change in behavior of gmail imap/smtp servers

On 07/22/2015 01:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 22/07/2015 04:34 πμ, walt wrote: Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to their email servers. Just in the last day or two, literally. No delay here with POP3. Login is instant. Just logged in via IMAP - no

Re: [gentoo-user] gru2-mkconfig tries to read the extended partition ??

On 07/26/2015 07:35 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Sat, Jul 25 2015, Mick wrote: On Saturday 25 Jul 2015 16:32:19 Daniel Frey wrote: Is Windows writing a hybrid partition table? Maybe use something like parted to check. Dan MSwindows these days installs a separate boot partition

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

On 07/25/2015 05:12 AM, lee wrote: Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com writes: Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. + Buy good hardware. + Never store anything on only a single disk (with very few exceptions). + Do not put swap partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] gru2-mkconfig tries to read the extended partition ??

On 07/25/2015 06:09 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Unfortunately, I must start over. After successfully installing linux, I proceeded to install windows. The result was an unbootable system invalid partition table (thank you windows installer). I rebooted the linux installation disk and

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

On 07/25/2015 09:43 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 25 July 2015 08:49:35 Daniel Frey wrote: I'm going to convert vixie-cron and anacron to cronie with the anacron USE set as well, so I can set the MAILFROM var in crontab as when machines email me I can't figure out which machine

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

On 07/16/2015 01:17 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use unetbootin to do the magic though. Is the partition table valid after you used dd to copy it over? If it

[gentoo-user] Testing SSD? (Somewhat OT)

Well, I sure haven't had much luck with SSDs. This will be the third one I've lost. On Wednesday I was watching my mythtv frontend when it hardlocked. Last time this happened the 7-year-old rust recordings drive failed. However, all that checked out and I found out I couldn't ssh in to the

Re: [gentoo-user] lvmetad Errors

On 07/12/2015 12:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It's because the RAID abilities built into most motherboards are really shitty. Very little, if any, optimization going on, no real intelligence, and the whole thing just looks and feels like it's no more than 2 or more volumes shoved into one

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

On 11/10/2015 03:12 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I used to use foo2zjs happily many a year ago. But then it vanished from > portage and I never got it working again. ?? Wow, I didn't even know that until just now. I still have it installed via an ebuild, I'm surprised portage didn't through

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

On 11/01/2015 04:08 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I am trying to get printing to work properly in my recently built machine. > 'hp-probe' identifies my printer as 'HP Deskjet 2510 series'. > When I print a text file from Gvim or a ps file from LO, > there are blank bands across the page, omitting lines

Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

On 11/02/2015 04:46 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 151101 Daniel Frey wrote: >> I had so many problems with hplip I stopped using it. I found another way >> to use my hp CP1025nw with foomatic and that works trouble-free. > > Don't be coy ! -- What did you actually do which wor

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

On 10/13/2015 09:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 151013 Daniel Frey wrote: >> On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >>> but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed ; >>> I can power off & restart normally afterwards. >>> 'dmesg' + 'syslog

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

On 10/13/2015 05:39 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > but doesn't wake up when the power button or a key is pressed, as it should ; > I can power off & restart normally afterwards. > 'dmesg' + 'syslog' simply show an immediate restart after the suspend. There was a kernel change some time back that

Re: [gentoo-user] pm-suspend problem

On 10/14/2015 11:11 AM, Mick wrote: > > PS/2 should just work™. It plugs straight into the MoBo chipset IRQs (via > LAPIC these days) and does not rely on userspace applications. > It should but on some boards it doesn't. I specifically remember an older ASUS board that had a jumper by the

Re: [gentoo-user] linux kernel disabling irq 16

On 07/11/2015 01:22 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: What's wrong with eix? It gives you a nice, easily understood list of all the current versions. If you don't use eix (like me) there's always eshowkw (available in the gentoolkit package.) It shows packages, slots, and keywording for all arch

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

On 08/26/2015 01:06 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the

Re: [gentoo-user] system uptime

On 08/30/2015 06:24 AM, Michel Catudal wrote: As for shutdowns there are several arguments for and against. What often kills electronic is the shock between hot and cold so there is an argument about keeping the system on. Whether it is always safe to keep the computer on all the time

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

On 08/26/2015 03:50 PM, Alex Corkwell wrote: I personally like using morituri [1] for ripping my CDs. It's a little bit slower than some, but very accurate (I believe it compares several reads, just to make sure there were no errors). It's not available in the main portage tree, but it's in

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Getting stuff off a Mac machine

On 09/04/2015 09:57 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > A friend has a, I thin a few years old - Yosemite, Mac that I need to > get some large files off. I though Mac's could read NTFS, the files are > bigger than 4GB hence NTFS over FAT32, hence formatted a spare USB drive > as NTFS and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flaky USB 3.0

On 09/08/2015 12:52 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > >> Den 8. sep. 2015 kl. 17.07 skrev James : >> >> Håkon Alstadheim alstadheim.priv.no> writes: >> >> > My PCIE USB 3.0 card keeps quitting, eg. no light from my laser mouse. >> I see no advantage to using usb3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flaky USB 3.0

On 09/08/2015 04:42 PM, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Yes, ebay may turn out to be my only option. Feels wrong to buy outdated tech > though. > > Trying a 3.1 card first. Different chipset. Might allow full "docking" > functionality, which would be just perfect. > > > You're right. It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive click of death?

On 10/03/2015 05:32 AM, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 03 Oct 2015 12:23:47 Dale wrote: >> Mick wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Recently I noticed that an old drive is clicking 3 or 4 times when it is >>> powered up. Thereafter is stays quiet. I think it is a mechanical >>> fault, because I placed the box

Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

On 09/19/2015 12:36 PM, lee wrote: > > > I could remove boost (and maybe reinstall it later), but I would like to > keep ffmpeg. hdf5 apparently goes back to having blender installed, > which I would also like to keep. And apparently, I would have to remove > libreoffice before I could update.

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> > > > Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue > what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home > partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully > confuse someone I guess. :/ With

Re: [gentoo-user] Distfiles cache setup

On 09/18/2015 01:15 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > How tight is space? eclean-dist only removes distfiles for packages that > are no longer in the tree. So you can run it on one system and keep > $DISTDIR reasonably trimmed. If you use the --package-names option, it > will do as you suggest and only

[gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and figured I should warn others. As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do other

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